Master Mason

Drama of the Week

BBC

Drama, Fiction

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The master mason is dead; long live the master mason. Lizzy Mansfield's comedy takes us back to the golden age of cathedral building and the moment humble stonemason Bill Mason gets the call. When the Bishop asks, you don't say no. But is he the one really calling the shots?

Bill ..... Edward Hogg Penelope ..... Laura Elphinstone Eliza ..... Kathryn Drysdale Bishop ..... Michael Bertenshaw Messenger ...... Aaron Gelkoff Tom Farmer ..... John Lightbody

Sound Designer ... Peter Ringrose Production Coordinator ..... Jenny Mendez

Directed by Toby Swift

A BBC Studios Audio production for BBC Radio 4

Transcript

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0:00.0	Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.
0:04.6	My name's Linda Davies and I commission podcast for BBC Sounds.
0:08.4	As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable
0:14.3	experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC
0:20.4	makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,
0:24.6	poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples.
0:29.7	If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds.
0:36.0	BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.
0:42.0	Welcome to Drama of the Week. podcasts. Imagine a building so vast it cannot fit inside a single story, with delicate spires and sweeping
0:59.6	buttresses carved by thousands of hands. A building like that has a past which stretches back
1:06.1	through generations and I have no time to tell you all of it so this is just one
1:11.0	tiny fragment.
1:13.0	But in the history of this great cathedral,
1:15.6	it is the fragment closest to my heart.
1:18.9	Stay with a filly, you lubab.
1:21.0	Eh?
1:21.6	From the knees!
1:23.0	Eh!
1:25.0	From the 4 man it must be no one on that size!
1:29.0	3 by 6, 61, and 4 by 8.
1:31.0	That'll level to you, lad. Play it again. Bill Lach. It begins on a particularly cold spring morning. There's a lot of money.
1:35.0	Can I get hands here?
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