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The Debrief

Episode One

Duration: 14 minutes

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

Available for 7 months

By Katherine Jakeways

On their journey home, Hannah and Mark dissect the events of a family meal, at which a potentially life-changing announcement was made.

The debrief is a common phenomenon – that moment when you leave a social event, climb into the car, or the taxi, or onto the bus and start to gossip with your partner about the evening's events. Hannah and Mark love a debrief, and in each episode of this new five-part series, we find them in the aftermath of an event with lots to get their teeth into. Writer Katherine Jakeways has been described by the Radio Times as ‘the next Victoria Wood’. Of her Radio 4 series ‘Where this Service will…’ the Guardian said “Jakeway's writing was sublime. The punchlines, the pacing, the humanity.”

Hannah ….. Rebecca Humphries
Mark ….. Tom Basden
Finn ….. Milo Robinson
Poppy …. Juno Robinson

Directed by James Robinson
A BBC Cymru Wales Production Show less

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