The Give and Take

Drama of the Week

BBC

Drama, Fiction

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

On a quiet riverbank a boy meets a stranger going through a rough patch, as the two keep tabs on a controversial rewilding project. Written by Linda Cracknell Read by Andy Clark Producer: Eilidh McCreadie

Linda Cracknell is a writer of fiction, narrative non-fiction and radio drama. Her work often combines travel and writing with a particular interest in landscapes, place and memory. Publications include essay collection and Radio 4 Book of the Week, "Doubling Back" and fiction "Call of the Undertow" and "The Other Side of Stone".

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:05.4	You should grade history, really.
0:07.6	You know, rather than listening to me.
0:10.4	What happens when you unravel your family's past
0:13.1	and discover a buried confession?
0:15.7	And your father was an expert in gases?
0:19.6	In poison gas.
0:21.2	Poison gas, yes.
0:22.8	A new documentary series about family secrets
0:25.6	and how the past lives on inside us,
0:28.4	even when we try to ignore it.
0:30.3	I started to wonder what else
0:31.9	had slipped from my great-grandfather's memory
0:34.2	while writing his memoirs.
0:36.9	A new documentary series by me, Joe Dunthorne.
0:40.3	Listen to Half-Life on BBC Sounds.
0:46.3	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:50.6	This is Drama of the Week.
0:57.0	The Give and Take. This is Drama of the Week. The given take by Linda Cracknell, read by Andy Clark.
1:05.4	Last sunlight, just when I usually come out into the clearing.
1:10.6	I hold my breath. I've heard movement.
1:14.2	The floor of twigs and dry soil crackles with two-time human footsteps.
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