Love and Other Lies: Trailer

Limelight

BBC

Fiction, Drama

4.4 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

When an online flirtation turns bad, Josie goes from being titillated to terrified.

Her dream of romance turning into the nightmare of sextortion. Soon she is embroiled in a web of deceit which can barely hold together her suburban life.

A rollercoaster of a comic thriller.

Written by Sarah Cartwright

Transcript

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0:00.0	Love and Other Lies
0:05.3	A drama from BBC Radio 4
0:07.6	It started as a bit of innocent online flirting
0:12.4	I can't imagine how hot you look
0:14.4	Maybe you don't need to imagine
0:16.7	Because Josie was bored
0:18.8	bored of doing the cleaning, the cooking and being condescended to by her teenage daughter.
0:25.0	Oh my God, Mom!
0:26.6	And overlooked by a husband who thought more about their cockapoo than her.
0:31.0	Are you wearing that moisturiser, Bab tapes?
0:33.2	Josie had had enough.
0:35.0	I still love Larry.
0:36.3	Of course I do, but differently.
0:38.4	More like the way you love a cousin, or really good cheese.
0:42.0	But when the flattation turns to extortion...
0:45.3	Make it ten grand, and I'll go away. You've got 24 hours. Clock emoji.
0:50.1	Josie turns to the one person she thinks can help, her daughter's idiot boyfriend.
0:55.0	Look, I don't know why you think I can get you drugs.
0:57.0	Tyler, you don't have to do the whole routine with me.
1:00.0	I don't care right now about you and Emma. I need to make cash.
1:03.0	This is crazy. You're a housewife. You don't deal. You do bake cells and shit.
1:08.0	But things don't go to plan.
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