Half Lives

Drama of the Week

BBC

Drama, Fiction

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Sara is trying to reach a society 10,000 years in the future.

Hannah is just trying to get through the week.

Hannah works as operations manager at a nuclear processing plant that’s about to be decommissioned. Its nuclear waste will be packed into canisters and buried deep underground.

But the waste will remain deadly for thousands of years.

Sara is a linguist, sent to shadow Hannah, to develop a way of warning future generations about the dangers of the waste that lies buried.

The challenge: today’s languages are unlikely to survive the vast timeframes needed.

As Hannah and Sara bring their very different perspectives to a tense working environment, tempers flare and connections are made.

Natasha Kaeda’s drama asks, how do we care for future generations?

Cast

Hannah…. Lois Meleri Jones

Sara… Indra Ové

The Myth… Kezrena James

Tegwyn… Wyn Bowen Harries

Eric…. Dion Lloyd

John…. Rhys Ap William

Production co-ordinators… Eleri McAuliffe and Lindsay Rees

Sound designer… Catherine Robinson

Director and Producer… Fay Lomas

BBC Audio Drama Wales

Transcript

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0:00.0	Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy.
0:05.0	My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC.
0:08.0	It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs, moments and movements,
0:14.7	stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous.
0:19.1	And the BBC's position at the heart of British music means we can tell those stories like no one else.
0:24.6	We were, are and always will be right there at the center of the narrative.
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0:34.4	infamous moments in music check out the music podcasts on BBC Sounds.
0:38.6	BBC Sounds music radio podcasts.
0:44.0	This is Drama of the Week.
0:47.0	It's late afternoon in the day of the world,
0:50.0	and the light is fading fast.
0:53.0	We thought that we could have it all,
0:56.0	light and heat and power.
0:59.0	But with it, we created a shadow stalking us through time, and now it's down here, in the dark.
1:12.3	Go now, while you still can, before you are burnt by the heatless flame.
1:19.0	Go now.
1:22.0	Go now. Go home.
1:29.0	Half life.
1:30.0	Half lives.
1:31.0	By Natasha Kader.
1:33.0	I can't remember the last time we had a winter this cold.
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