The Mini-Break
Drama of the Week
BBC
3.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Esme’s meeting her boyfriend’s parents for the first time. But when she discovers a dark family secret, making a good impression becomes the least of her worries… Chloë Myerson’s modern-day folk-horror story about family and fate, inspired by the writing of Hans Christian Andersen.
CAST Esme ..... Máiréad Tyers Danny ..... Josh Bryant-Jones Susanna ..... Jane Slavin Tim ..... Nicholas Woodeson The Storyteller .... David Menkin Agneta ..... Kitty O’Sullivan
Written by Chloë Myerson Directed by Anne Isger Sound by Ali Craig and Andy Garratt
A BBC Audio Production
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan |
| 0:05.2 | I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy |
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| 0:24.4 | subjective and everyone has different tastes so we've got a huge range of comedy on offer |
| 0:29.6 | from satire to silly shocking to soothing profound to just general pratting about. So if you |
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| 0:45.0 | This is Drama of the Week. |
| 0:47.0 | The Mini Break, my Chloe Mind. The mini break by Chloe Meirsen. |
| 0:57.0 | Okay the lights off, I'm going to go again. You, what? You went just before we got on. |
| 1:08.0 | But now I actually need to go. |
| 1:09.0 | So you didn't need to go before? That was just protocol. |
| 1:12.0 | Fine, we're almost there. We're nearly there when we took off. It's basically just going up and going back down. |
| 1:17.0 | Ladies, we will shortly be beginning a descent. Oh yeah, okay. I'll wait. |
| 1:21.0 | Please return to your seats. |
| 1:22.0 | Cropin Hargan. Cepin Hargan. I'll wait. ... Copenhagen? |
| 1:23.0 | Copenhagen? |
| 1:24.0 | Copenhagen. |
| 1:25.0 | Are you nervous? |
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