Summary
by Kamal Kaan and Mary Cooper Episode 1 - Naila's Story
Naila is a bright teenager in Bradford. Her parents want her to go to university to study medicine, and they don't want any distractions. But Naila loves cricket, and gets involved in the nascent school female cricket team. Three of the girls become firm friends and call themselves 'Bat Girls'. The team shows real promise and starts to do very well. But will this get in the way of Naila's parents' ambitions for her?
NAILA..............................................Yazmin Kayani KARISHMA................................... Amy Leigh Hickman ROSHINA .......................................Saba Amini MARIYA...........................................Natalie Davies QADIR/ TAHIR...............................Ash Tandon MRS HEMINGWAY/ MUM........ Purvi Parmar MR CHATTERJEE...........................Sushil Chudasama
Production Co-ordinator - Lorna Newman Studio Manager - Amy Brennan Script Advisers - Sara De Jong and Zainab Goreja Sound Design - Sharon Hughes Director/Producer - Gary Brown
A BBC Studios Audio Production
Special thanks to Duckinfield Cricket Club, Shivanie Patel (Bradford Park Avenue Ladies' Cricket Club), Katie Stewart (Yorkshire Cricket Board) and Mariam Ali - (Refugee Action, Bradford)
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| 0:00.0 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:04.6 | My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:08.4 | As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable |
| 0:14.3 | experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC |
| 0:20.4 | makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars, |
| 0:24.6 | poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples. |
| 0:29.7 | If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, |
| 0:33.1 | find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. |
| 0:37.6 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:41.1 | This is Drama of the Week. |
| 0:43.0 | Back girls, by Kama and Mary Cooper. |
| 0:47.0 | Back girls, by Kamal Khan and Mary Cooper. |
| 0:54.0 | Episode 1, Naila's Story. |
| 0:57.0 | How does change happen? Slowly, yes. But then sometimes quickly, sometimes there's a single moment |
| 1:09.7 | when you look back and say, then that's when it happened that moment that's how it was for me I'm |
| 1:16.4 | not saying that's how it was for all the girls for me yeah there was that moment |
| 1:22.0 | quiet please quiet There was that moment. Quiet, please. |
| 1:23.5 | Quiet. |
| 1:25.5 | Welcome back, years 10 and 11. |
| 1:28.3 | You've got a busy year ahead of you, but just because you're doing your GCSEs |
| 1:32.1 | doesn't mean you have to give up sport. |
| 1:35.1 | We want everyone to enjoy playing something and no surprises here because you all know my obsession |
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