‘Sister Salter’s Visit’ - radio play

Adjuja presents...
Sister Salter's Visit
It’s 1910 and Bermondsey is in the grips of scarlet fever. Ada Salter, radical socialist and health activist, lives and works locally. In this imagined meeting she is delivering a food parcel to a young mum and her daughter who are in isolation.
Written and directed by Adam Power-Annand

Click here to listen on PodBean. OR click here to download. (The play is 7 minutes long.)

How this play came to be written:
One evening in 2020 author Adam Annand delivered a food parcel to the doorstep of a friend who was in strict isolation. During lockdown he had been reading Ada's biography, and that night he found himself unable to sleep, thinking of the parallel pandemic of 1910, Ada's daughter Joyce dying of scarlet fever, and the reactions of local people who had loved her. Then the image emerged of Ada delivering a food parcel....

Edited and produced by SilvaKuff.
With Jade Dowsett-Roberts as the mum,
Julie Power as Ada Salter,
and introducing Jasmine Martin as Gracie.

Thanks to Graham Taylor for inspiration (provided by his book, Ada Salter: Pioneer of Ethical Socialism, during the Covid lockdown of spring 2020).