Environmental activists and Kingsmarkham residents unite to fight the development of a new bypass road that is being constructed through Framhurst Great Wood. Excavations for the bypass unearth the badly decomposed body of a German student. Then five people, including Dora Wexford, are kidnapped by Sacred Globe, a terrorist group committed to saving the world.

  • Blue Heaven Productions moved the fictional town of Kingsmarkham to Petersfield in East Hampshire after deciding that the closure of Romsey town centre for the protest march scenes would cause too much disruption for local residents.
  • George Baker: Road Rage was very difficult to adapt. It’s a very long novel… an awful lot of colour comes from Ruth’s characters and we just couldn’t fit them all in.

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  • Published by Hutchinson in 1997
  • The novel reflects the climate of anger that surrounded the construction of new British roads such as the notorious Newbury bypass in the mid-1990’s.

Cast + Credits

  • DCI Wexford

    George Baker

  • DI Burden

    Christopher Ravenscroft

  • Dora Wexford

    Louie Ramsay

  • Jenny Burden

    Diane Keen

  • Sheila Wexford

    Deborah Poplett

  • Sylvia Fairfax

    Charon Bourke

  • Ryan Barker

    Timothy Evans

  • Owen Struther

    Nigel Pregram

  • Kitty Struther

    Patricia Garwood

  • Roxanne Johnson

    Natasha Estelle Williams

  • Herr Ranke

    Lex vanDelden

  • Paul Curzon

    Owen Scott

  • Timothy Jordan

    Robert Morgan

  • Newsreader

    Debbie Middleton

  • Myrna

    Fiona Welburn

  • Conrad Tarling

    Jack Klaff

  • Frenchie Collins

    Judith Sharp

  • DI Weaver

    JUdith Scott

  • DS Malahyde

    Isobel Middleton

  • Andrew Struther

    Daniel de la Falaise

  • DS Slesar

    James Allen

  • DS Vine

    Robin Kermode

  • Daisy Panick

    Patsy Byrne

  • Robert Panick

    David Foxxe

  • Audrey Barker

    Joanna Scanlon

  • Mrs Peabody

    Maryann Turner

  • Colum Tarling

    Russell Mabey

  • Chief Const Ryder

    Neil McCaul

  • Stanley Trotter

    Ian Bartholomew

  • Tanya Paine

    Natalie Walter

  • Mr Mavrikiev

    Robin Lermitte

  • Clare Cox

    Amanda Boxer

  • Pamela Tarling

    Iris Russell

  • Charles Tarling

    Peter Howell

  • Pub Landlord

    John Forgeham

  • Pub Landlady

    Jean Warren

  • Jefrey Godwin

    Trevor Bowen

  • Newspaper Editor

    Trevor Ray

  • Desk Sergeant

    Robin Freeman

  • Casting

    Suzie Bruffin
    Liz Vincent-Fernie

  • Music

    Brian Bennett

  • Additional music

    Red Zebra

  • Associate Producer

    Peter Hider

  • 1st Assistant Director

    David MacDonald

  • Location Manager

    Stephen Lawrence

  • Continuity

    Alison Black

  • Production Co-ordinator

    Dawn Mortimer

  • Production Accountant

    Peter Harvey

  • Costume Designer

    Rita Angell

  • Make Up

    Toni Holmes

  • Production Buyer

    Graham Curtis

  • Art Director

    Paul Cowell

  • Camera Grip

    Alan Imeson

  • Gaffer

    John Donoghue

  • Sound Recordist

    Maurice Hillier

  • Graphic Design

    John Hamon

  • Colourist

    Warren Eagles

  • Dubbing Editor

    Howard Eaves

  • Dubbing Mixer

    Dave Fallon

  • Camera Operator

    John Harcourt

  • Production Designer

    Christine Ruscoe

  • Film Editor

    Christopjer Wentzell

  • Director of Photography

    Mark Partridge

  • Executive Producer

    Graham Benson

  • Producer

    Neil Zeiger

  • Directed by

    Bruce MacDonald

  • A Blue Heaven Production for United Productions

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