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Life Lines

Series 4

Episode 1

Duration: 14 minutes

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

Available for 9 months

Al Smith's drama series set in an ambulance control room where Carrie the call handler must deal with heart-stopping situations. Today a baby is found in a bin.

Carrie ..... Sarah Ridgeway
Will ..... Rick Warden
Ian ..... Mike Jibson
Naomi….. Clare Corbett
Robin ….. Samuel James
Ange ….. Jane Whittenshaw
Iris ….. Cecilia Appiah

Directed by Sally Avens

Al Smith's award-winning drama series set in an ambulance control room where Carrie the call handler must deal with heart-stopping situations. Today a baby is abandoned in a bin and Carrie thinks she knows who the mother is.

Life Lines has twice won best series in the Audio Drama Awards in 2017 and 2019. Al Smith, the writer, is a graduate of the BBC Writers Academy and has been a broadcast Hot Shot. In 2012 Al won the BFI Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Prize. Storytelling at the ARIAS, the Radio Academy Awards and he was nominated for the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright at the 2017 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.

Sarah Ridgeway worked with Al on his play ‘Harrogate’. Sarah won best actress in the OFFIES for Fury at the Soho theatre. Show less

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