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Nicola Jones - Scorched

4 Extra Debut. Thriller follows a man trying to discover what happened to his teenage sister after she disappeared 30 years ago. Is his father telling the whole truth?

Nicola Jones's tense, fast-moving thriller follows a man trying to re-interpret his memories of the long hot summer of 1976. Who is to blame for his sister's disappearance, and what really happened to her?

In 1976, Mike's sixteen year old sister, Evie, walked out of the house and never came back. There didn't seem to be any explanation, but Mike was thirteen at the time and didn't want to upset his Mum by asking too many questions. Now Mike is in his forties, his Mum is dead and a rare visit to his home town provides him with an opportunity to investigate the events of that scorching summer and reinterpret them from an adult perspective.

A meeting with an old school friend forces Mike to question his father more closely. Is he guarding a dark family secret? Is he telling the whole truth?

Written by Nicola Jones.

Mike - Tom Roberts
Bern - Kim Wall
Young Mike - Gabriel Towell
Evie - Chandeep Uppal
Sylvia - Bharti Patel
Jason - Robert Wilkinson
Taxi driver - Sean Connolly

Produced and directed by Peter Leslie Wild

Nicola Jones has written one previous radio play, "Angels in Disguise" for Radio 7's Man in Black series.

45 minutes

Last on

Fri 3 Apr 2015 21:15

Broadcasts

  • Tue 25 May 2010 14:15
  • Fri 3 Apr 2015 11:15
  • Fri 3 Apr 2015 21:15

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