This Thing of Darkness: Series 4
Drama of the Week
BBC
3.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
by Frances Poet with monologues by Eileen Horne.
Part One – Admission
Dr Alex Bridges is an expert forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist, assessing and treating perpetrators of serious crime.
In this new 5 part series, she takes us into the world of secure units, explores the relationship between mothers and daughters and the impact of fatal violence on the lives it shatters.
DR ALEX BRIDGES ….. Lolita Chakrabarti KATHLEEN ….. Maureen Beattie LINDSAY ….. Helen Mackay ABI ….. Anna Russell-Martin DANIEL ….. Nicholas Karimi SANDRA ….. Lucianne McEvoy LEWIS/SOLICITOR/AMBULANCE OPERATOR ….. Lee Hughes DC INGLES/SECURITY GUARD/NURSE ….. Kenny Blyth
Sound recording : Andy Hay and Fraser Jackson Sound Design: Fraser Jackson
Series Consultant: Dr Gwen Adshead
Series format created by Lucia Haynes, Audrey Gillan, Eileen Horne, Gaynor Macfarlane, Anita Vettesse and Kirsty Williams.
A BBC Audio Scotland Production produced and directed by Kirsty Williams
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | How would it feel to have your deepest secrets held to ransom? |
| 0:11.0 | You have different tragedies in your life that you wouldn't write into your own journal. |
| 0:16.0 | This is the story of an unprecedented crime. |
| 0:19.0 | The biggest case in Finnish criminal history. |
| 0:22.3 | Thousands of victims exposed by a huge data hack |
| 0:25.8 | and the hunt to track down a criminal who was thought to be untouchable. |
| 0:30.0 | Makes me sick to my stomach. |
| 0:32.4 | Intrigue, Ransom Man. |
| 0:34.3 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.5 | This is Drama of the Week. |
| 0:42.1 | Ambulance, what's the address of the emergency? |
| 0:44.5 | 26 West Clyde Avenue, Helensbrough. |
| 0:46.7 | Are you calling about yourself or someone else? |
| 0:48.8 | My gran. She's pinned between the wall and the back of my mum's car. |
| 0:53.1 | I can't get my mum to speak, but she, my grand, she looks... |
| 0:56.0 | Are you with her grand now? |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah. Can you see any movement in her chest? |
| 1:00.0 | Um... |
| 1:02.0 | No. |
| 1:03.0 | Are you able to safely put your teeth close to her nose and mouth to check for any breath? |
| 1:06.0 | Um... |
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