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10 Days

Episode 5

Duration: 15 minutes

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

A gripping thriller by Orange Prize-shortlisted author Gillian Slovo. Ten unpredictable days of violence erupt from a stifling heat wave. And, as Westminster careers are being made or ruined, lives are at stake.

Ten Days is about what happens when politics, policing and the hard realities of living in London collide.

Episode 5:
Crisis point has been reached - for London, for Peter Whiteley, for Cathy and her daughter, and for Joshua Yares, struggling to stop the rioting and find an officer gone rogue.

Read by Jasmine Hyde and Ben Onwukwe
Abridged by Eileen Horne
Produced by Clive Brill
A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. Show less

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