Life Lines - Series 9
Drama of the Week
BBC
3.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Carrie is a call handler for the ambulance service. Every day she makes split-second decisions as she deals with a succession of emergencies; from a young man who has fallen whilst attempting to put up a flag, to a mother dealing with the death of her only son. Carrie is gifted with the knack of calmly helping people through their most vulnerable moments. Each episode is a collage of heart-stopping stories, where Carrie’s indiscriminate acts of kindness can mean the difference between life and death. The programme contains scenes of a traumatic nature.
Carrie ….. Sarah Ridgeway Will ….. Rick Warden Ian ….. Michael Jibson Nick ….. Archie Christoph-Allen David/ Æssan ….. Keneth Collard Peter ….. Sam Dale Bella ….. Sadie Gray Natalie ….. Anna Spearpoint Lauren ….. Yasmin Mwanza Gwen ….. Clare Corbett
Production Co-ordinator ….. Luke MacGregor Technical Producers ….. Keith Graham, Sam Dickinson
Writer ….. Al Smith Director ….. Sally Avens
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.5 | The Most Haunted House in England, or a Victorian ghost hunters' elaborate hoax. |
| 0:12.7 | Witnesses to genuine poltergeist activity are at 1960s Yorkshire family with an overactive imagination. |
| 0:20.6 | Join me, Danny Robbins, and my team of paranormal experts as we dig deep into the past, |
| 0:26.4 | reopening classic cases and searching for the truths they left behind. |
| 0:32.1 | Uncanny cold cases. Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.1 | This is Drama of the Week. |
| 0:42.1 | Lifelines by Al Smith, part one. |
| 0:50.8 | Ambulance service is the patient breathing and conscious. |
| 0:54.6 | I've, uh, fallen and I can't get up. |
| 0:58.9 | Are you bleeding, caller? |
| 1:00.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.2 | Brush my head a bit. |
| 1:04.3 | Back of my head. |
| 1:05.8 | How much are you bleeding if you had to measure it in coffee cups? |
| 1:09.1 | I don't think that much. |
| 1:10.4 | It's just sort of my hair. |
| 1:13.6 | Can you tell me where you are, please, caller? |
| 1:15.6 | I'm on the roundabout. |
| 1:18.6 | Okay, which roundabout is that? |
| 1:20.6 | It's done from the airport. |
| 1:24.6 | There's a path under it. |
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