Life Lines - Series 7

Drama of the Week

BBC

Drama, Fiction

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

by Al Smith

CARRIE ..... Sarah Ridgeway WILL ..... Rick Warden IAN ..... Michael Jibson DIVYA /CSC CO-ORDINATOR ...... Vineeta Rishi DONALD .... Neil McCaul ELEANOR/PARAMEDIC ..... Emma Handy NIKKI/OPERATOR ...... Gabrielle Scawthorn CALLUM/GARY ...... David Angland BETH ...... Cecilia Appiah SCHOOL GIRL/ NAOMI .... Shreya Lallu ANDY ...... Nuhazet Diaz Cano

Production Co-ordinator ...... Maggie Olgiati Technical Producers ...... Peter Ringrose & Alison Craig Director ...... Sally Avens

The award winning drama set in an Ambulance Control Room. Every day Carrie has to deal with emergencies calmly and with a clear head; from a young boy having to give his father CPR to a woman giving birth in a swimming pool, but when her friend and colleague, Will, asks her to lie on his behalf she is forced to choose between her friendship and her job.

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0:00.0	Escape with a good book on BBC Sounds Like Yellowface by Rebecca F.
0:08.0	I play up our connection. My grief over her death becomes a cornerstone of my origin story.
0:14.8	Enlightenment by Sarah Perry.
0:16.8	Thomas examined the image of a stone woman stuck on the verges of the lake.
0:21.2	I suppose she's in the water now. What is she holding?
0:23.8	And Giovanni's room by James Baldwin.
0:26.4	Do you have a mistress? I asked him.
0:28.5	I don't seem to be very interested in women right now.
0:31.5	Listen, only on BBC Sounds.
0:36.0	BBC Sounds.
0:38.0	Music Radio Podcasts.
0:41.0	Welcome to Drama of the Week. Lifes by Al Smith, part one.
0:57.0	Lifestines by Al Smith, part one. Ambulance service is the patient breathing and conscious
1:08.8	my dad's not moving is your dead breathing caller? I don't know.
1:13.0	Is his chest going up and down?
1:15.0	Yes.
1:16.0	Yeah it is.
1:18.0	Is he awake?
1:19.0	Not really.
1:20.0	He got a hit on the back of the head like 20 minutes ago. He was okay for a bit but now he's collapsed and I can't get him to wake up.
1:28.0	Can I ask how he got hit on the head?
1:31.0	By wing mirror, like on a delivery van. We're out running and it just came by
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