A new radio play for BBC Radio 4. In Lucy Caldwell’s Martians, Tia Bannon plays a young midwife who is preparing to leave her family and the world she knows to begin life on another planet. One of the twelve chosen few to be picked to take their skills to Mars to begin new life, just as her grandmother did ...
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Lucy Caldwell's new play for radio, "Mayday", premieres on BBC Radio 4 on Monday, June 12. After broadcast, it will be available for a time on BBC iPlayer. For more information, and to listen, click here. Synopsis Coralie is a nineteen year old student. It's the morning of the 30th April and she had just taken a Mifepristone pill, the ...
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Lucy Caldwell's new radio drama for BBC Radio 4, Dear Baby Mine, was broadcast in June 2016. The omnibus edition of the drama will be available on BBC iPlayer for 30 days. Synopsis When Conor is told he has the condition azoospermia and is not producing any sperm, he struggles to come to terms with the implications of his diagnosis ...
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On April 1, BBC broadcast Cyprus Avenue, one of the stories from Lucy's anthology Multitudes. The story was read by Laura Pyper and the programme was produced by Heather Larmour. Cyprus Avenue tells of a chance meeting at the airport awaiting an increasingly-delayed flight sees a young couple discover they have childhood histories - and family tragedies - in common, ...
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Lucy Caldwell's new radio play "Quicksands", a drama about the slippery and shifting notions of truth and memory was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on December 8. Though no longer available on BBC iPlayer more information can be found here.. A young married couple, Tessa and James, hire a caravan for a week's holiday on the wind-swept Northern Irish coast ...
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To mark the fiftieth anniversary of his death, the story of poet Louis MacNeice's trans-Atlantic love affair with the American short story writer Eleanor Clark and the poetry it inspired, dramatised from his Letters by playwright Lucy Caldwell. In 1939 Louis MacNeice fell in love. The poet had had a tough few years: his world had fallen apart when his ...
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"Avenues of Eternal Peace" - the Afternoon Play on BBC Radio 4, on 4 June 2009 - focused on the horrific events in Tienanmen Square twenty years ago. Student couple Kai-Liang and Chang Li join the Tiananmen Square protests, where their passions and ideas are put to the ultimate test. Avenues of Eternal Peace was chosen as a 'Pick of ...
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“I came home because they found a body. It was two weeks before my twenty-first birthday and a month before my final exam results were out. Which meant I was almost exactly as old as she was. As she was.” Five years ago, almost to the day, Eleanor’s big sister Amy disappeared. At about 3pm on a Saturday afternoon she ...
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