Episode 4
Alice Jolly’s newly commissioned serial about love, loyalty and the meaning of care explores the emotions at the heart of a family crisis. Read by Fiona Button.
A newly commissioned serial from Alice Jolly about love, loyalty and the meaning of care, exploring the emotions at the heart of a family crisis.
After their mother’s death, sisters Leah and Tiffany know their father needs support. Ebullient, charming and and unreliable, Ronnie Maker has lived life at speed and he has no intention of slipping gently into a peaceful old age. How will he cope in a remote Yorkshire village on his own, with his daughters so far away, so constantly busy?
When a neighbour offers to help out, it seems like an ideal, if temporary, solution.
But the sisters cannot be sure what lies behind Marika’s offer of help and, as the crisis of their father’s situation mounts, it brings to the surface suspicions, old resentments and guilt.
Alice Jolly writes: “At its heart, this story is about who cares, in every sense of the word, in a society where the whole question of ‘care’ is a fraught and urgent issue. It circles around a demanding man, but it’s ultimately about the women around him and how they deal with loyalty and love.â€
Episode 4. There’s no going back once Leah reveals what she has learnt about their mother’s death.
Alice Jolly is a novelist and playwright. She has won a Royal Society of Literature V.S.Pritchett Memorial prize, the Pen/Ackerley Prize and an O. Henry Award, and was runner-up for the Rathbones Folio Prize for her novel Mary Anne Sate, Imbecile. Her short story collection From Far Around They Saw Us Burn was published in 2023.
Fiona Button, the reader, played Rose Defoe in The Split (Â鶹ԼÅÄ 1). As well as many television roles, she has starred in shows at the RSC, Almeida, Royal Court, Donmar Warehouse and in the West End.
Writer: Alice Jolly
Reader: Fiona Button
Producer: Sara Davies
Executive Producer: Peter Hoare
Sound Design: Matt Bainbridge
Production Manager: Sarah Wright
A Pier production for Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
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- Thu 26 Sep 2024 22:45Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4