SteelHeads: 2. The Conversation
Limelight
BBC
4.4 • 698 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
When young British tennis pro, Joleen Kenzie (Jessica Barden), is diagnosed with a rare terminal illness, she has herself cryogenically frozen at an experimental lab in Seattle, in the hope that one day – perhaps hundreds of years into the future - there will be a cure and she can be revived.
She wakes up to a world divided...
From the creators of The Cipher and Passenger List, a chilling new medical thriller inspired by true events starring Jessica Barden.
Cast: JOLEEN – Jessica Barden REMI – Khalid Laith LUTHER – Bruce Lester Johnson PADMA – Jennifer Armour EARL – Kerry Shale JAVIER - Jason Forbes RICHARD – Eric Meyers
All other parts played by: Andrew Byron, Gianna Kiehl, Earl R Perkins, Laurel Lefkow and Christopher Ragland
Original Theme composed by Pascal Wyse
Written and Created by Brett Neichin and John Scott Dryden Script Editing by Mike Walker Sound Design by Steve Bond Sound Editor: Adam Woodhams Assistant Producer: Eleanor Mein Trails by Jack Soper Produced by Emma Hearn Director and Executive Producer: John Scott Dryden
A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Oh, sorry for the bumps. We don't have roads in Alaska. They're a foreign concept. |
| 0:20.8 | This is all foreign to me. |
| 0:22.6 | What is this place, Padma? |
| 0:25.6 | Who are you people? A religious cult? Doomsday preface? |
| 0:31.6 | Uh, no. Well, I'm a pragmatist, but we have all types here. Army veterans, eestheticians, soccer moms, but above all, we're human. And that's a rare thing in this world. |
| 0:47.1 | I look out the window. I see a cluster of small houses. They're all painted red, blue, and yellow, just like the doors back at |
| 0:56.4 | the compound. What's with the houses? Blue, red, yellow. It's shorthand. For what? The blues don't talk |
| 1:05.3 | to the reds. The reds won't talk to the yellows. Well, unless there's a blue present. Are you |
| 1:10.3 | talking about politics? Not exactly. |
| 1:14.1 | Jolene, you picked a very eventful five years to sleep through. You keep saying that. |
| 1:18.2 | Because it's true. The entire world transformed, largely because of one event. |
| 1:24.5 | Let me guess. War? Alien invasion, robots? |
| 1:28.3 | No, nothing that dramatic. |
| 1:30.3 | So what happened? |
| 1:31.3 | What transformed the world? |
| 1:33.3 | Wait. |
| 1:36.3 | Before we get the answer, let's go back to where we left off. |
| 1:41.3 | Ah, shit! |
| 1:43.3 | Jolene, are you okay? |
| 1:45.2 | Jolene. |
| 1:46.4 | Jolene. |
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