Tipping Point

Drama of the Week

BBC

Drama, Fiction

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Written by Hannah Khalil

In 2040, a Middle Eastern nation is struggling to survive rising temperatures and rolling power cuts. Architect Noura Halim has devoted her life to designing a new kind of city, one that could protect people from the worsening climate and keep her country alive. But as construction begins, the project drains the nation’s fragile resources, workers are pushed to breaking point, and her teenage daughter Amal begins to question everything her mother believes in.

As tensions rise at home and across the country, Noura must confront the cost of her own ambition and the possibility that her dream of salvation could destroy the very place she’s trying to save.

Tipping Point was developed through OKRE Experimental Stories supported by Wellcome in consultation with Dr Robert Hughes of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Dr Candice Howarth of the London School of Economics.

Cast:

Noura . . . . . Nadia Albina Amal . . . . . Eleanor Nawal Steve . . . . . Clive Hayward Mr Felix . . . . . Angus Wright Jamila . . . . . Tanvi Virmani TV Presenter . . . . . Jasmine Hyde Noura's Assistant . . . . . Sasha McCabe

Production co-ordinators: Sara Benaim and Emma Donald Sound design: Sharon Hughes Director: Sasha Yevtushenko

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0:35.7	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:40.0	Welcome to Drama of the Week.
0:47.1	And now the award you've all been waiting for,
0:51.2	the Innovation and Future of Architecture Prize 2040.
0:56.6	As you all know, this prize comes to the funding and support to turn the architect's dream project into a reality and is sponsored by the Ministry of the Environment and Future Planning
1:02.3	with a generous grant from the Ark Foundation. I'll hand over to Mr. Felix, the CEO of the
1:09.1	Ark Foundation, to present the award. Mr. Felix, the CEO of the ARC Foundation, to present the award.
1:11.6	Mr. Felix.
1:17.6	Thank you.
1:19.6	I am delighted to be here tonight to present this award.
1:24.6	The winner is a visionary local architect who has been overlooked for far too long.
1:32.0	After leaving her home to study in London, she was part of the teams behind some of the most
1:37.0	admired structures of modern times, the orb in London, the blade in Copenhagen, and the
1:43.7	renowned Fishbowl Parliament building in the Hague.
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