3. The Experiment

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A year after they last spoke, Sonia meets Ayad again. Memories of Project Hope’s early days beg an uncomfortable question: was Ayad always looking for the exit? After all, Project Hope's first few weeks were tough going, especially on Ayad. When local woman Abbie entered their orbit, it finally felt like the group was making real change. What they didn't know then was that Abbie would one day become their fiercest adversary. Series Overview Four young idealists - Sonia, Kieran, Indigo and Ayad - fall under the spell of charismatic thinker Faith Abbott at university and channel her ideas into a bold political experiment: Project Hope. Thrown into a struggling coastal town vulnerable to the far right, they try to reinvent politics from the ground up, backed - and sometimes undermined - by the unpredictable Abbie. Project Hope captures global attention, but when Faith denounces them from beyond the grave, the group are forced to confront their shared history, and the moral compromises they've made to remain “good people”. Good People is a fictional story set against our very real political moment, examining the rise of populism, the perceived failure of politics-as-usual, and the deep divisions that run though our country and beyond. This is the third episode in an ambitious six-part state of the nation drama from award-winning political writer Steve Waters. CAST Sonia ..... Natalie Simpson Ayad ..... Ikky Kabir Indigo ..... Alby Baldwin Faith ..... Anastasia Hille Kieran ..... Nicholas Armfield Jackie ..... Jasmine Hyde Gabe ..... Django Bevan Abbie ..... Iona Champain Jake ..... Jimmy Walker Lars ..... Nigel Pilkington Shirley ..... Judith Street Writer ..... Steve Waters Sound ..... Andy Garratt, Keith Graham, Sam Dickinson Casting Manager ..... Alex Curran Script Development ..... Abigail Le Fleming Production Co-ordinator ..... Kate Gray Assistant Producer ..... Luke MacGregor Director ..... Anne Isger A BBC Studios Audio production