One Hundred and Fifty Days

Drama of the Week

BBC

Drama, Fiction

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In 2023, award winning audio dramatist Oliver Emanuel was part way through writing a new play for radio when something happened to him and he found he could no longer read. This is his story: a powerful and poetic drama that is part audio play and part autobiography...

A man and a woman are caught in a rip tide, the life they might have had together - flashing in front of their eyes.

Another man and a woman are caught in an impossible situation, the life they have together - flashing in front of their eyes.

One Hundred and Fifty Days is drawn from The Great Wave - Oliver Emanuel's unfinished audio drama and from All My Reading – his creative response to the experience of brain cancer.

These two pieces of writing were edited together by Victoria Beesley and Kirsty Williams.

Performed by:

Robin Laing Shauna Macdonald Robert Jack

Sound Design by Fraser Jackson

Directed by Kirsty Williams

Details of support with cancer are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Katie Simpson was a show jumper with a promising future.
0:06.0	She was just bursting with life.
0:08.0	A genius on horseback.
0:10.0	It took four years to bring Jonathan Creswell, her killer, to court.
0:16.0	He was within a whisker of getting away with him.
0:19.0	This is a story that rocked Northern Ireland.
0:22.3	A controlling and coercive individual accepted in society and no one brought their hand up and reported it.
0:29.5	Assume nothing. Murder at the stables. Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:36.1	BBC Sounds Music, radio podcasts music, radio, podcasts.
0:40.3	This is Drama of the Week.
0:44.8	Day one.
0:46.4	I'm at the park with the kids.
0:48.6	Life feels relaxing.
0:51.0	The daughter and the son are full of energy.
0:53.9	I'm happy. I sit on the grass watching their chat and play and laughter.
0:59.0	The son comes to my knee frowning with a wee nettleburn on his ankle.
1:03.0	The daughter says something, but I don't fully understand what she says because then I'm gone.
1:10.0	This isn't how the story's meant to start. understand what she says because then I'm gone.
1:14.1	This isn't how the story's meant to start.
1:18.0	At the beginning of it all, we are both married to other people and we are both drowning.
1:20.0	That's how the story is meant to start.
1:22.2	It was going to be about a man and a woman.
	...

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