This Thing of Darkness

Drama of the Week

BBC

Drama, Fiction

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

by Frances Poet with monologues by Eileen Horne.

Part One – A Dangerous Animal

Dr Alex Bridges is an expert forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist, assessing and treating perpetrators of serious crime.

This gripping drama explores the psychological impact of murder on teenage perpetrators and follows the fortunes of participants in a Long Sentence therapy group.

Has Dr Bridges made a mistake in putting co-offenders together in Group therapy?

Dr Alex Bridges ….. Lolita Chakrabarti Anthony ….. Lorn Macdonald Finn ….. Reuben Joseph Twitch …. Brian Ferguson Simon ….. Shaun Mason Donna ….. Karen Bartke Mental Health Nurse ….. Elysia Welch

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.

Thanks to Victoria Byrne, Barlinnie Prison, Vox Liminis Distant Voices Project and Prof Fergus McNeill.

Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane and Kirsty Williams

A BBC Scotland Production directed by Gaynor Macfarlane and Kirsty Williams

Transcript

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0:32.2	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:35.9	Welcome to Drama of the Week.
0:48.8	This Thing of Darkness by Francis Poet.
0:52.6	Part 1, A Dangerous Animal
0:55.0	Anderson, stay down.
1:09.4	I'm trying to fire her.
1:12.6	But did you mean to hurt? And the ground down the sun, stay down. I don't know to follow. Ruta Jimmy not hurt. Oh my God. I'm hoping you're in a good mood, Alex.
1:36.7	When am I not?
1:37.6	When I share who I have for you in Sague.
1:40.4	This is quite a file.
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