Waking Beauty

Drama of the Week

BBC

Drama, Fiction

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Alfred Bradley Award Winner Alex Clarke's moving original drama.

Seventeen-year-old Vanilla’s fall from a tree becomes a wake-up call for those close to her. Displaced and disconnected, the Byrne family learn how to reconnect with each other – even though one of them is asleep.

ORLA ..... Sade Malone MARY ..... Michelle Fairley SIOBHAN ..... Lucy Gaskell GEMMA ..... Sacha Parkinson FATHER ROBIN .... .Joseph Alessi

Directed by Nadia Molinari

Audio Drama North Production

Transcript

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to quickly tell you about some others.
0:05.0	My name's Andy Martin and I'm the editor of a team of podcast producers at the BBC in Northern Ireland.
0:11.0	It's a job I really love because we get to tell the stories that really matter to people here,
0:16.1	but which also resonate and apply to listeners around the world.
0:19.5	And because the team is such a diverse range of skills and strengths.
0:23.0	We have trained journalists, people who love digging through archives,
0:26.6	we've got drama and even comedy experts.
0:29.0	We really can do those stories justice.
0:31.6	So if you like this podcast, head to BBC Sounds where you'll
0:34.7	find plenty more fascinating stories from all around the UK.
0:40.1	BBC Sounds music radio podcasts.
0:44.0	This is Drama of the Week.
0:46.0	Get over!
0:50.0	Look at us, we are the paramedics okay.
0:55.0	Don't let the police near her please.
0:57.0	Pray for a sinners now and at the hour of our death,
1:02.0	Amen.
1:03.0	Hail Mary, full of Christ, Lord
1:05.0	is one of those.
1:06.0	Oh, listen, the geese.
1:11.0	Oh, V geese. Oh, vanilla loves them.
1:15.0	Hope she's awake to hear.
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