English Rose: Series 1: 1. The Call of the Wild
Limelight
BBC
4.4 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Eighteen-year-old Rose travels from Whitby to New York to work as nanny to a glittering but secretive family. It’s a culture shock and Rose seems unprepared for the mostly male attention she elicits. But it turns out she is quite capable of looking after herself: bloody revenge is her speciality.
She's not like the other girls. And Gulliver is no ordinary baby. This is a world not just of champagne, but shadows, where all is definitely not as it seems.
Stylish and surprising fantasy horror with a comic twist, starring Alexandra Mardell (Coronation Street) and Demetri Goritsas (Ten Percent).
Writer Helen Cross wrote ‘My Summer of Love’ which won a Betty Trask award and was made into a Bafta-winning film with Emily Blunt (recently rated her best film in The Guardian top ten Emily Blunt films).
Rose ... Alexandra Mardell Maya ... Miranda Braun Austin ... Demetri Goritsas Siobhan ... Deirdre Mullins Delphine ... Yasemin Özdemir Randy ... Michael Begley Art Guy ... Mathew Durkan Beatrice ... Alexandra Hannant Newsreader ...Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong Jason ... Joseph Tweedale Mam ... Jane Thornton
Including the voices of Jo Makel, Paul Murphy, James Hoggarth, Freya Pollaidh, Augusta Chapman, Becky Ripley and Ben Casswell.
Original music written and performed by Dana Margolin and Sam Yardley of Porridge Radio, and produced, mixed and engineered by Sam Yardley.
Sound Design: Ilse Lademann
Director: Mary Ward-Lowery
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2022.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | English Rose, episode one, the call of the wild. |
| 0:13.0 | A hunt is underway in and around WIPBY. |
| 0:15.3 | Standing within like a few metres of where someone's been literally savaged. |
| 0:18.6 | After an attack on a man in the town. Okay, so yeah, I'm just overlooking where they are right now. I've much loved Yorkshire businessman who's been missing since Monday. They're just pulling something up. North Yorkshire police have refused to comment on speculation. Oh my God, yeah. Yeah, it's a corpse. They're pulling of a butchered corpse. Oh my god. |
| 0:38.0 | As brusly seems are being reported in the harbour area. |
| 0:40.7 | All say don't, sway and sack of ripped flesh. |
| 0:43.7 | Yeah. Champagne, Marr. |
| 1:05.0 | Thanks. |
| 1:10.0 | Compared to the original Queen Mary, this is not a ship. |
| 1:14.6 | It's a theme park. |
| 1:16.6 | Go away! Shoot! Go! Leave me alone! I need to listen to my messages. |
| 1:25.6 | Hi Rose, super excited, can't wait to meet you. Just checking you proceed the contract, we had to have an additional lawyer check it over. There are a few clauses you might want to check. Tootip. Hi, Rose. Austin here. Pleased you're joining us. Great, you could step up so quick. I like that in a person. Readiness is all. |
| 1:45.0 | We'll be sending over some additional documents that you need to agree before you arrive. |
| 1:50.0 | Great photo too, by the way. Wow. |
| 1:53.0 | Okay. |
| 1:54.0 | Ciao. |
| 1:55.0 | He sounds weird. |
| 1:59.0 | Excuse me. You all right? |
| 2:01.6 | I couldn't help but notice you from the way off. |
| 2:04.6 | Oh, English girls, wow. |
| 2:06.6 | Hey, I see you. I see what you're doing. |
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