Bitter Pill: 1. Fight or Flight

Limelight

BBC

Fiction, Drama

4.4 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

An audio drama series about memory and trauma.

After a traumatic car crash, Mary joins a clinical drug trial that promises a cure for PTSD. The medication triggers intense flashbacks of the accident that left her fiancée comatose. But is Mary simply remembering the event, or reliving it? And if she is actually returning to the past, does that mean she can change her future?

Cast: Mary ….. Séainín Brennan Jackie ….. Charlotte McCurry Carl ……. Shaun Blaney Barista ….. Christopher Grant Board Member ….. Richard Croxford Warren ….. Martin McCann All other roles were played by the cast and crew.

Writers ….. Michael Patrick & Oisín Kearney Producer ….. Michael Shannon Executive Editor ….. Andy Martin

Music composed by Denis Clohessy. Sound Design by Bill Maul.

A BBC Northern Ireland production.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:04.4	You always do this, man.
0:16.7	Carl, watch out.
0:18.2	Look on.
0:19.4	Come. Carl, watch out. Oh, call. What? What?
0:22.6	What?
0:23.6	What?
0:25.6	Relaxing my
0:32.6	Wurlow, turn off those bloody wheels.
0:35.6	Turning off.
0:36.6	Relaxing. Wheel Song. Nine. Ar off. Relaxing. Whale-Song.
0:38.6	Nine. Ours.
0:40.1	Relaxing my arse? What time is it?
0:42.6	It is 3.42am on 6th, October.
0:48.3	2033.
0:50.0	Latest headlines.
0:51.4	The International Criminal Court will move to New Zealand, now that the Hague is fully underwater.
0:57.0	Cancel.
0:57.4	Prime Minister.
0:58.6	News cancelled.
1:00.3	You have one voicemail from Jackie, brackets.
1:05.0	Annoying.
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