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Saturday Drama.blurb - David Hare’s South Downs was a huge hit at the 2011 Chichester Festival where it appeared as a specially commissioned double-bill partner to Rattigan’s The Browning Version before transferring to the West End. Jeremy Herrin now directs the same cast in this radio version.Set in Lancing College, Hare’s old school, the play follows the trials of young John Blakemore (Alex Lawther), whose mature intelligence alienates him from staff and boys alike (he’s reading Camus). It falls to another boy’s mother, Belinda Duffield (Anna Chancellor), to tackle his unhappiness with tea, sympathy and — a sure way to a boy’s heart — cake. Goodness but this must of been dreamt up in one of Danté's circles. 'Orrible