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🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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The first series of Life and Time was awarded Bronze at his year's ARIAS and now the second series returns. This time writer, James Fritz focuses on the Prison Officers.
Prison Officer, Michael Rose featured briefly in the first series and he's back. Michael is good at his job. It's rewarding but the pressure is growing. A wave of experienced officers are leaving and not being replaced. Then one day Rihanna joins. A young newbie and Michael needs to show her the ropes but Michael is becoming disillusioned and alarmed about the prison crisis - death by a thousand cuts. Rihanna, her new boots too shiny and the prison keys heavy on her belt, hasn't a clue about what lies ahead and that life on the inside is just as tough for the officers as it is for the prisoners.
Michael ..... Robert Glenister Rihanna ..... Rebekah Murrell Paul ..... Jason Barnett Jenny ..... Emma Handy Steven ..... Gabin Kongolo Toby ..... Chris Lew Kum Hoi Control Room/Officer Moritz ..... Ian Dunnett Jnr
Directed by Tracey Neale
Writer: James Fritz Producer and Director: Tracey Neale Technical Producer: Keith Graham Production Co-Ordinator: Ben Hollands
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| 0:00.0 | It's 1997 when the streets of a housing scheme erupt. |
| 0:05.0 | Angry scenes at the Raploc Estate in Stirling outside the house of a convicted paedophile. |
| 0:11.0 | At the heart of the crowd, Big Mags Haney, an anti-pedophile campaigner who made headlines. |
| 0:17.0 | She wasn't the only person who stood up. She just happened to shout the loudest. |
| 0:21.8 | Dubbed the matriarch of a family from hell. |
| 0:24.7 | The amount of crimes committed by that family was stuff of legend. |
| 0:28.5 | I was so scared. |
| 0:30.0 | Crime next door, the ballad of big mags. |
| 0:32.8 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.4 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:40.4 | Welcome to Drama of the Week. |
| 0:51.0 | Whenever I tell people I'm a prison officer, they say to me, they look sort of horrified, and they say, |
| 0:59.5 | why the hell would you want to do that? |
| 1:05.2 | Life and Time by James Fritz. |
| 1:09.4 | Part 1. One year. |
| 1:13.0 | Good man. |
| 1:14.5 | Sorry? |
| 1:15.5 | I said you're a good man for doing the tease. |
| 1:18.3 | Oh, right, yeah. |
| 1:19.5 | All right, so listen up, everyone. |
| 1:21.9 | Morning briefing. |
| 1:23.0 | We're all quiet, according to the overnight. |
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