English Rose: Series 1: 4. Life Support
Limelight
BBC
4.4 • 698 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
By Helen Cross.
Gulliver is in the hospital and Rose wants to know why. There is danger everywhere and she must protect him.
Eighteen-year-old Rose has come from Whitby to Manhattan to work as nanny to a glittering but secretive family. 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). With music by Dana Margolin and Sam Yardley of Mercury-nominated band, Porridge Radio.
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). Mary Ward-Lowery won Best Director in 2020 Audio Drama Awards.
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 by Ilse Lademann Producer Mary Ward-Lowery
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.1 | English Rose, episode four, life support. |
| 0:16.0 | It has tonight been confirmed that Yorkshire police are looking for a serial killer or killers. |
| 0:21.6 | The right to protest is protected under Article 11 in relation to a number of deaths. |
| 0:26.6 | It does not extend to any violence inflicted or... |
| 0:29.6 | The port alert has been issued... |
| 0:30.6 | Issued photographs of the women they are now hunted. |
| 0:32.6 | ...about internationally wanted fugitives. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm looking for the baby ward. |
| 0:42.3 | Golda-Fox. |
| 0:43.3 | Room 352. |
| 0:44.3 | All around the scent of rot and the murmur of fading heartbeats. |
| 0:48.3 | Rose? We're over here. |
| 0:50.3 | Is he all right? Is he armed? |
| 0:51.3 | That's a great question. |
| 0:52.3 | May ya? |
| 0:53.3 | Shh. He's sleeping. Oh my poor hand? That's a great question. Mayor. Shh. He's sleeping. |
| 0:55.1 | Oh, my poor boy. What's happened to you? |
| 0:58.8 | It's just a splint and an elastic bandage. It looks worse than it is. |
| 1:03.5 | I have to go and speak to the welfare officer. Can you stay with him? |
| 1:08.4 | Hey, I got you this. And she hands me a muffin with a desperate grin. I need to know what |
| 1:15.2 | happened, Mayor. When I left him at the gallery, he was fine. Who did this? I was only away from him for a few |
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