Cracking

Drama of the Week

BBC

Drama, Fiction

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

"Legend of the Edinburgh Festival" Shôn Dale-Jones is back with a brand new play. With original music by John Biddle. When the world goes mad, do we inevitably go mad too? CRACKING takes on the battle between love and hate, asking what’s funny and where we draw the line. Shôn’s 83-year old mother is waiting for some test results from the hospital so he goes back home to the Isle of Anglesey to visit her. In a moment of joking around, he cracks an egg on his mother's head. All hell is let loose. Internet trolls appear in real life demanding that he stop abusing his mother and get off the island… CRACKING is a dark and comic story that blends fiction and reality into one seamless whole, a story about love and hatred that celebrates how searching for connection beats disconnecting. "The Great Welsh Storyteller” Lyn Gardner “The most generous of hosts…a mesmerising personality…a gifted storyteller…a natural comic” The Guardian Cracking by Shôn Dale-Jones Performed by Shôn Dale-Jones Original music by John Biddle Violin by Ros Butler Flute and Piccolo by Lindsay Ellis Sound design by Cathy Robinson Directed by John Norton A BBC Audio Drama Wales Production

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0:00.0	He's a rule breaker, a trend setter. He reshaped art and redefined graffiti.
0:07.4	How does he smell?
0:08.4	Like paint.
0:09.3	Has he got any distinction features?
0:10.8	His anonymity.
0:11.9	But who is he?
0:13.2	What's his name?
0:14.1	Banksy.
0:15.0	Apparently I've met him twice.
0:16.5	The Banksy story.
0:18.0	Banksy's work is always about the human spirit versus establishment.
0:24.3	Listen on BBC Science.
0:26.8	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:32.1	This is Drummer of the Week.
0:34.8	Hello. My name is Sean.
0:40.5	Sean is my real name.
0:42.8	The name my mother gave me and the name I've used ever since.
0:46.6	A few months ago I was having a conversation with my friend Sophie.
0:52.7	She was saying our capacity to love and hate defines us as individuals and as a nation.
1:00.4	She said, the more disconnected we are, the more able we are to hate.
1:05.6	Just at that moment my mother phoned.
1:08.4	She's the first person I ever loved and the person I have loved for the longest time.
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