Safe From Harm

Drama of the Week

BBC

Drama, Fiction

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Thought-provoking winning drama by the inaugural Wales Writer in Residence award winner Rhiannon Boyle.

Safe From Harm tells the frank and powerful story of Alys, a teacher and mother whose life unravels when a colleague is arrested for possessing indecent images of children. Unable to cope, Alys contacts a celibate paedophile in an attempt to better understand the danger they pose. Her primal urge to forever protect her children becomes so all consuming Alys slowly loses her grip on reality. Sian Reece-Williams (Hidden, Emerdale) plays Alys.

The Wales Writer in Residence is a prestigious scheme, aimed at furthering a writer’s career across stage, sound and screen. It is a partnership between BBC Cymru Wales and National Theatre Wales, along with BBC Writersroom Wales, with the intention of supporting new writing talent.

Alys ….. Sian Reece-Williams

Christian ….. Oliver Ryan

Ianto ….. Sion Pritchard

Mum ….. Rhian Morgan

Tyler ….. Alfie Ford

Taya ….. Nerys Stocks

Kyden ….. Iolo Reynolds

Sound design was by Catherine Robinson

Safe From Harm was a BBC Writersroom Wales production

Directed by Helen Perry

Transcript

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to introduce myself.
0:03.7	My name's Stevie Middleton and I'm a BBC Commissioner for a load of sport podcasts.
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0:12.2	pundits and the biggest sports stars.
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0:37.1	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:41.0	This is Drama of the Week.
0:45.2	There's a void, a silence.
0:50.3	We sit there on the hard plastic chairs looking at each other.
0:55.0	So I fill it with...
0:58.0	You're looking well?
1:00.0	Which is a lie because Christian usually look so well groomed, but not today.
1:05.0	And although this place isn't quite one flew over the cuckoo's nast. It's not far off.
1:12.2	How's things?
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