Bitter Pill: 3. Disconnect
Limelight
BBC
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 Stuart ….. Tony Flynn 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 | Good morning, you're here with Wake Up Europe. |
| 0:20.1 | Firstly, a Belfast pharmaceutical company is hoping to end |
| 0:23.7 | 23 with a medical breakthrough. They have a new drug, which they hope will cure, wait for it, |
| 0:30.9 | post-traumatic stress disorder. I'm joined by the co-CEO of Abacus, Dr. Jacqueline here. |
| 0:40.7 | Thanks for having me on. |
| 0:43.1 | Thanks for taking the time out of your busy schedule. |
| 0:49.0 | So, a pill to cure trauma, is there really a quick fix to forget? |
| 0:51.3 | It's not about forgetting. |
| 0:53.3 | It's about living with it. |
| 0:55.7 | We're confident given a few years. |
| 0:58.0 | This drug will be a force for good. |
| 1:00.1 | And what's the drug called, Jackie? |
| 1:04.3 | It's not official, but we're thinking restore. |
| 1:10.2 | It's okay, Katie. |
| 1:11.6 | Oh, it's okay. There now. Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh. |
| 1:15.6 | Hmm. It's okay. I bite a little story, hmm? |
| 1:20.6 | Once upon a time, there was a princess and a brave knight. |
| 1:25.6 | The princess and the knight were riding in a chariot when they were hit by a large dragon. |
| 1:32.3 | The night went into a deep, deep sleep. |
| 1:35.3 | Sleep he couldn't wake up from. |
| 1:38.3 | So the princess took a magic potion and went back in time to save him. |
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