Sabine - Episode 1

Drama of the Week

BBC

Drama, Fiction

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

When Sabine’s body is found beneath the cliffs at Beachy Head in an apparent suicide, her sister Elly is convinced she was murdered. Elly's hunt for the killer takes her deep into the secret life her sister kept hidden.

Elly has gone to Brighton to pack up her sister’s university room and wait for the results of the post-mortem. But things aren’t quite adding up, and Elly soon starts to unearth the secrets that Sabine was keeping from her.

Sabine is a new five-part murder mystery by Mark Healy. All episodes are available on BBC Sounds now.

CAST Elly ..... Sorcha Groundsell Sabine ..... Freya Mavor Mia ..... Aisling Loftus Gabe ..... Tommy Sim’aan Daniel ..... Ivanno Jeremiah Sullivan ..... John Lightbody Poppy ..... Juliana Lisk Elly’s Mum ..... Jessica Turner

Written by Mark Healy Directed by Anne Isger Sound by Keith Graham, Ali Craig and Pete Ringrose Production Co-ordination by Gaelan Davis-Connolly

Sabine is a BBC Audio Production for Radio 4

Transcript

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0:00.0	If you could have a conversation with your younger self, what would you tell them?
0:06.0	Anonymity is our most valuable gift.
0:09.0	I'm Kristi Young, and in Young again, I'll be asking my guests what honest advice they would give their past self.
0:16.0	Believe it when they say that loving yourself is the answer.
0:20.0	Among those joining me will be Jamie Oliver, Jeda Pinkett Smith and Mel B.
0:24.1	I knew that I had a voice and I knew that I wanted to say certain things and represent certain things.
0:30.0	Young again, with me, Kirstie Young. Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:35.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:40.0	This is Drama of the week.
0:43.0	Sabine by Mark Healy.
0:47.0	episode one.
0:49.0	Sabine, oh Sabine, do you remember? Do you remember, do you remember that morning when we were
1:00.4	wee girls and dad dragged us out of bed before dawn and led us up into the mountains.
1:05.6	Oh, do you remember the lights have been?
1:09.6	Now it was as if the whole world was being switched on just for us.
1:15.0	I'm cold darkness to gentle greys and then the warmth of the sun,
1:21.0	touching everything into a full bursting color.
1:26.0	And has sat us down and told us, there are times in life when the veil is lifted, and we see the world as it really is for better or worse.
1:36.4	Beyond the dreaming, the everyday clutter and confusion we see the truth of things and we huddled together in the cold
1:45.1	that Mark called down old hippie and we all laughed he was right there are days when the world reveals itself in all its beauty and glory.
1:58.0	But there are also days when we are forced to face great pain and loss.
2:04.0	Days when life jolts us awake and demands that we take heed.
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