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From Fact to Fiction

Series 17

Episode 4: 140 Characters with Nothing to Say

Duration: 13 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Playwright D.C. Jackson creates an imaginative response to a story from this week's news as the award-winning series continues.

On 30th December the news reported that Pauline Cafferkey, a Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola whilst volunteering for Save the Children in Sierra Leone, had been moved from a Glasgow hospital to the Royal Free Hospital in London.

Social commentator Katie Hopkins tweeted on the subject: "Not so independent when it matters most are we jocksville?" and followed up with a second tweet: "Little sweaty jocks, sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket."

It set off a twitter storm that culminated in more than 27 thousand signing an online petition calling, yet again, for her arrest.

In his searing drama DC Jackson explores the controversial and often abusive world of social media.

Directed by Kirsty Williams. Show less

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