Bitter Pill: 2. Flashback

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 Eoin ….. Seamus O’Hara Delia ….. Jo Donnelly 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.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	Have you suffered from a horrible trauma?
0:10.0	Is it affecting your day-to-day life?
0:14.0	I'm Warren Kusack, CEO of Abakas Pharmaceuticals.
0:17.0	If you suffer from PTSD, you can try our new pill.
0:21.7	Reset by taking part in our clinical trial, free of charge.
0:26.8	Help us advance science and make trauma a thing of the past.
0:31.8	Abacus, counting ways to improve your life.
0:51.1	Thank you. ways to improve your life. Bitter Pill by Michael Patrick and Oshin Kearney.
0:55.6	Episode 2. Flashback.
1:01.1	Okay, I go in, take this pill, travel back in time and try and save Carl.
1:05.8	All by making sure people don't find out I know Jackie.
1:09.3	Are you ready to change the past, Arnold?
1:11.6	I am an AI assistant.
1:13.6	My readiness is immaterial.
1:15.6	They all have PTSD?
1:18.6	That would be the logical assumption.
1:21.6	Hey, I'm Mary.
1:23.6	Hello, love. I'm Delia.
1:25.6	Are you all right?
1:29.5	Tunerous car accident.
1:32.3	Hello, volunteers.
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