Transcription: Part One
Katie Hims adapts Kate Atkinson's spy thriller set in MI5 and the BBC. Juliet is terrified by an anonymous note left at Broadcasting House: You will pay for what you did.
By Katie Hims, adapted from the novel by Kate Atkinson.
Juliet Armstrong’s life - as a producer in BBC Schools just after the war - is overturned when she sees Godfrey Toby, an old MI5 colleague, who insists he doesn’t know her. Then, when a note is left for her at Broadcasting House, threatening revenge for one of her past crimes, she desperately needs to find out which one.
Kate Atkinson's book is a witty and exciting blend of politics, espionage and personal identity, alternating between Juliet's wartime experiences and her post-war life in the corridors of Broadcasting House. Recruited as a typist in the Second World War, after telling nothing but lies in her interview, orphan Juliet proves herself an interestingly nihilistic prospect.
Cast
Juliet ..... Phoebe Pryce
Godfrey Toby ..... Toby Jones
Trude, Mrs Scaife, Fr Rosenfeld, Headmistress ..... Fenella Woolgar
Dolly, Mrs Ambrose ..... Eiry Thomas
Anna, Receptionist, Clarissa, Dodds ..... Cecilia Appiah
Perry ..... Rufus Wright
Merton, Waiter ..... Hasan Dixon
Cyril, Lester ..... Ian Dunnett Jr
Hartley, Detective ..... Jonny Weldon
Davenport, Astrakhan ..... Rick Warden
Boy, Driver, Dennis, Mortician ..... Xavier Starr
Written by Katie Hims, adapted from the novel by Kate Atkinson
Sound by Pete Ringrose
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole
Produced by Mary Peate
A Hooley production for BBC Radio 4
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- Sun 19 Apr 202615:00BBC Radio 4
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