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Drama of the Week

The Stranger

Drama of the Week

BBC

Drama, Fiction

3.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Daisy Johnson is a multi-award-winning short story writer whose debut novel Everything Under was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

In The Stranger she weaves a gentle romantic story beginning with an unusual flatshare to save money, then twists it into a suspenseful thriller all in the space of 14 minutes - read by Saffron Coomber.

Saffron Coomber has recently starred in Sir Lenny Henry's Windrush drama Three Little Birds, was in Small Axe by Steve McQueen, and made her West End debut as Shakespeare's muse in Emilia by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm

Written by Daisy Johnson Read by Saffron Coomber Produced by Allegra McIlroy

Transcript

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0:00.0

This podcast is more than just true crime and amazing twisty turnie cases.

0:06.6

It's psychological insights looking at the assumptions versus the facts.

0:11.3

I'm Dr Julia Shaw criminal psychologist and I'm journalist

0:15.2

I'm a hmber hark in our brand new series of bad people we look at a different crime

0:19.3

each episode to reveal what it tells us about those of us who do terrible things.

0:24.8

Bad people.

0:26.3

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:28.8

BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.

0:34.8

This is Drama of the Week.

0:39.2

The Stranger by Daisy Johnson, read by me, Saffron Kumba.

0:49.0

Left you some eggs.

0:52.0

In the fridge there is a Tupperware of hard-boiled eggs.

0:57.0

The middles removed and replaced with mayonnaise and mustard.

1:01.0

The yolk mashed with curry powder and returned to the centre.

1:04.9

They are called Deviled Eggs, and the devil is in the details of our growing love for

1:11.9

one another. The daisies he leaves beside the bed in a still sticky

1:16.7

jam jar, the crinkly book section of the newspaper which I carefully separate from the

1:22.2

rest and put beside the toilet for him to read.

1:26.0

I lift one of the eggs between two fingers and crack my jaw wide enough to put the whole thing inside.

1:34.8

We are ships in the night, moving through the dark.

1:38.8

We are hands reaching out in the gloaming, not quite touching. There is romance in absence in lifting

1:47.1

this cold egg to my mouth and knowing that he boiled it, peeled it, cut it asunder. I see his hands doing these things as if I were

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