by Amit Gupta for BBC Radio 4
An Indian nuclear scientist’s intergrity is compromised when peaceful Nuclear energy is abandoned in the 1960s.
Drama | 05 November 2020 | 44 minutes
Early one morning, Prakash is showing his research to Professor Akram, senior research scientist in India’s atomic energy programme. It’s brilliant, possibly ground-breaking, but Professor Akram is distracted, his mind is somewhere else.
He asks him to sit with him by the window in his laboratory and look out at Delhi’s unfolding sunrise. Fifty years later, Prakash gazes out of a similar window at the early morning vista of Delhi and remembers the events of that momentous day.
Sunrise is an original drama for radio by film director and screenwriter Amit Gupta.
Cast
Professor Akram – VINCENT EBRAHIM
Prakash – NIKESH PATEL
The Government – Minister NEIL D’SOUZA
Dr Divya Mishra – AYESHA DHARKER
Sheena, daughter of Prakash – SHEENA BHATTESSA
Studio Manager & Editor – MARK SMITH
Director – NICOLAS KENT
Executive Producer – EDWARD CROZIER
Producer – NICHOLAS NEWTON
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