The Last Smoker (2009)

UK

Radio Play
Series Title: The Afternnon Play
Writers: Julia Dover, Yasutaka Tsutsui
Director: Matt Thompson
Translator: Andrew Driver
Cast: John Byrne, Eileen McCallum, Madeleine Worrall, Stewart Conn, Madeleine Brolly

Dover’s Scots adaptation of Tsutsui’s short story, an agreeably histrionic satire set in a Japan of the near future in which smokers are treated like pariahs, is a mordantly funny work that asks important questions about the relationship between government, media, and the individual in terms of liberty. Iain.Stott