Posted by
Riklaa on June 3, 2010 at 3:36pm
Scorched
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.AP-BBCR4-AftPlay-100525-Scorched.mp3
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