The Great Delay

Drama of the Week

BBC

Drama, Fiction

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Psychodrama about the toxic legacy of climate change denial by Theo Toksvig-Stewart, starring Luke Treadaway, Olivia Williams and Rhashan Stone.

America in the early 1990s is the setting for this drama inspired by real events, The subjectivity of memory is scrutinised in a story that imagines the hot-house environment of a PR company as it sought to shape the world’s response to climate change.

Bob ….. Luke Treadaway Sal ….. Olivia Williams Ken ….. Rhashan Stone Casey ….. Kitty O’ Sullivan With Michael Bertenshaw, Rhiannon Neads and Josh Bryant-Jones

Directed by Gemma Jenkins

Rhashan Stone (The Trick, Keeping Faith) and Olivia Williams (The Crown, The Nevers) play the husband and wife team behind these dangerously successful sleights of hand. Luke Treadaway (The Serial Killer’s Wife, Fortitude) plays the former employee who’s desperate to distance himself from what happened.

This drama was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

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0:45.0	Welcome to Drama of the Week. So, Who is hell? Robert? It's Robert.
1:15.0	Bob.
1:17.0	Can I come in?
1:25.0	I... Can I need to talk to you? Is Kim there?
1:29.0	God, God damn it. The Great Delay by Theotoxvix Stewart. Theo Talks, Stuart. Hi.
1:55.0	Hi.
1:57.0	Hi.
1:58.0	Hi.
1:59.0	Do you want to come in?
2:00.0	Sure, yeah.
2:07.0	Let me take your coat. Uh, no, I'm fine.
2:08.0	You are soaked.
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