Summary
By Katherine Jakeways, Eno Mfon and Darragh Mortell.
Everybody remembers the Siege, when for 24 hours the whole world was watching a small South London branch of a global supermarket chain. You’ve seen the news, the crazy conspiracy blogs and Naomi’s infamous Snap. Now for the first time the hostages tell the inside story of what really happened on those two dark days in December.
Episode 3. Night falls and Naomi is in danger. The police are on the roof and the gunman starts to get mad at the authorities. He decides to show them he means business. The world is watching.
CAST NAOMI - Danielle Vitalis JACKSON - Kwabena Ansah KEMI - Layo-Christina Akinlude PENNY - Jasmine Hyde MAGGIE - Stacey Abalogun DEREK - Ewan Bailey
SOUND DESIGN – Catherine Robinson DIRECTOR - John Norton PRODUCED by John Norton and James Robinson
A BBC Cymru Wales Production
Siege is the latest drama in the Limelight strand and will also be available in full on BBC Sounds from Monday 7 February as a 5-part podcast
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:10.5 | In the dark, you start to think plenty thoughts. |
| 0:15.3 | Start to think of home, all your husbandy tonight. |
| 0:19.8 | How will your son sleep with that is Mama's night prayers? |
| 0:23.6 | Think of all these things when you have enough time. |
| 0:27.6 | I could not sleep or. |
| 0:29.6 | I could not even eat like the rest of them. |
| 0:32.6 | I was worried for Naomi. |
| 0:34.6 | She was in there, in the office with him for a long time. She should not have been there. |
| 0:41.5 | She was just a child. I would have gone in her place if I could, but there was nothing I could do. |
| 0:49.0 | I was in one of those owls alone. You know the story of Jonah, in the belly of the wheel? |
| 0:57.1 | Eh, it helped me get through the night. |
| 1:01.9 | We were all in the main shot floor. |
| 1:05.0 | Car was in the back room with I owe me, |
| 1:07.3 | occasionally coming out to patrol the aisles. |
| 1:10.0 | I didn't like it. I didn't like it oneles. I didn't like it. |
| 1:11.6 | I didn't like it one bit. |
| 1:12.6 | I didn't like how quiet they were back there. |
| 1:15.6 | Anything could have been happening. |
| 1:18.6 | There hadn't been any mention of food or drink up until this point. |
| 1:22.6 | So we fended for ourselves. |
| 1:24.6 | I had a plowments from the fridge, kept it simple. Jackson was filling himself up with energy drinks. The last thing we needed was in becoming more hyper. About two hours went by. Still nothing. The useless security guard, Derek, started on the whisker. |
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