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Friday Drama: Tough Love

Tough Love

08/05/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Friday Drama, Tough Love

By Andrea Gibb. Parents Laura and Mark learn the terrible truth about their golden boy.

By Andrea Gibb. Parents Laura and Mark don't see the warning signs - missing bank cards, tumbling grades at school. Then they learn the terrible truth about their golden boy.

By Andrea Gibb


At first, parents Laura and Mark don't see the warning signs: the bottles not taken to the bottle bank, the missing bank card, the tumbling grades at school. Then the terrible realisation dawns - their son, Danny, is an addict. He's always been the golden boy - not like his big brother, Paul, who has been a thorn in their side. Paul is moody and uncommunicative. Danny, on the other hand, has always been sunny and easy. And now he's in trouble.


This is a mother's story and as Danny spirals into drugs counselling and failed rehab treatment, his mum has to make the hardest decision of her life.



Andrea Gibb is the award-winning screenwriter of Dear Frankie and Afterlife and is currently working on a feature film version of Swallows and Amazons for television, an original feature, ATLANTIC BRIDGE, an adaptation of Rose Tremain's MUSIC AND SILENCE for BBC. 

Produced and directed by Gaynor Macfarlane.

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