Ken Kesey - One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Adapted for radio by M.J. Reid from Dale Wasserman's stage version of Ken Kesey's novel.

In the late 1950's Kesey volunteered to be a subject in experiments with hallucinogenic drugs, and at the end of those experiments he began working the night shift in a psychiatric unit. As a result he wrote what's now regarded as one of the great postwar American novels, following the fortunes of the rebellious and psychopathic Randall Patrick McMurphy in his feud with the disciplinarian Nurse Ratched.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 18th December 1995. Recorded from BBC7 in November 2008.

R.P. Mc Murphy : Bob Sherman
Nurse Ratched : Margaret Robertson
Harding : William Roberts
Billy : Kerry Shale
Cheswick : Matt Zimmerman
Martini : John Cassidy
Chief Bronden : William Hootkins
Doctor Spivey : Stuart Milligan