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Drama on 4: Chris Wilson - I Before Bee

I Before Bee

11/01/2011

Chris Wilson - I Before Bee

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Chris Wilson - I Before Bee

Teenager stammerer Michael Croxley fears public speaking, but is facing a spelling bee.

4 Extra Debut. Teenager stammerer Michael Croxley has a fear of public speaking. So he is horrified to join a spelling bee. Stars Mykola Allen.

I Before Bee 
by Chris Wilson

A comic and heartwarming play about teenager Michael Croxley whose stammer has contributed to his fear of public speaking. To his horror, Michael finds that he's competing in the national school spelling bee's; when the girl he adores, Lynne Hargreaves, reads a composition of his in double English and discovers he's a whizz with words and his spelling is stupendous she asks him to be part of the school spelling-bee team. How can he refuse? He accepts gallantly. Secretly he sobs to his nana terrified at the prospect. His Scottish Nana comes to the rescue with the help of Robert The Bruce.

Michael ....... Mykola Allen
Lynne ....... Sophie McShera
Nana............Maureen Beattie
Michael Senior....Paul Copley
Serena ....... Poppy Rush
Andre ...... Jack Ryan
Moderator.....Seamus O'Neill
Speech Consultant....Sue Addlestone

Producer/Director - Pauline Harris

The Writer - Chris Wilson is a sports journalist from Hull, who won a BBC Northern Radio writer for new writers -Alfred Bradley Bursary Award. His first play, Lump Boy Logan, starring Annette Badland and William Rush was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in The Wire strand.

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