The Lovers
Drama of the Week
BBC
3.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
By Andy Grace Edwards. Poignant drama about love, art and the healing power of a walk.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | Your time starts now. |
| 0:07.2 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast. |
| 0:09.4 | Absolutely right. |
| 0:11.5 | So, you might like to know that the BBC makes loads of other podcasts. |
| 0:15.6 | Really? |
| 0:16.4 | Wow. |
| 0:17.2 | Many of them are very funny. |
| 0:19.1 | Which I think means... |
| 0:20.3 | A hatful of ha-hars. And energy. Even if you do say so ourselves. I agree 100% to that. Find them all on BBC Sounds. Just tell us a joke. Come on. Tell us a joke. Tell us a joke. Come on. Tell us a joke. Come on. Tell us a joke. Just search comedy on BBC Sounds. I'm really looking forward to getting stuck in. This is Drama of the Week. |
| 0:57.0 | A Good. A good question. That's what makes a great piece of art. |
| 1:01.0 | The year is 1988. |
| 1:06.0 | This is Marina Abramovich. |
| 1:09.0 | This is the start of the greatest performance in art history. |
| 1:12.6 | The lovers. |
| 1:14.6 | It's about love. |
| 1:15.6 | The love between a woman Marina and Uly, her man, |
| 1:18.6 | a boundary-breaking, death-defying couple joined in heart, |
| 1:22.6 | and most importantly, art. |
| 1:25.6 | For years, they've walked side by side, but not today. Today, they are 5,000 |
| 1:32.1 | miles apart. 5,000 miles of rocks, sands and summits, all 5,000 miles of the Great Wall of China. |
| 1:40.6 | 90 days. 90 days of walking. One foot in front of the other to meet in the middle. |
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