2. Secrets
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ journalist Bee becomes email friends with Iraqi academic May, with no inkling of the drama to follow. With Fenella Woolgar.
2005. May Witwit is an English Literature lecturer at Baghdad University specialising in Jane Austen.
Bee Rowlatt works at the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service in London as a reporter.
For some time they've been exchanging emails initially as part of Bee's work and a curious friendship has grown up.
Neither foresees the dramatic events that will change their lives.
Dramatised by John Fletcher.
May ...... Souad Faress
Bee ...... Fenella Woolgar
Ali ...... Zubin Varla
Justin ...... Stephen Hogan
Eva/Ayasha ...... Deeivya Meir
Militia Man/Official/Minister ...... Peter Polycarpou
Newsnight director ...... Jonathan Forbes
Lawyer/Octavia ...... Elaine Claxton
Director: Peter Kavanagh
First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in August 2011
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