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Emma Fielding

Matthew Marsh

Finn Monteath

Elaine Claxton

Ian Conningham

Paul Heath

Hannah Genesius

Sophie Radice

Charlotte Jones

Liz Webb

15 Minute Drama: The Henry Experiment: Episode 1

The Henry Experiment

Episode 1

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A mother fears that a child parenting expert is endangering his own seven-year-old son.

4 Extra Debut. Anna finds a boy out alone and accompanies him home, but she’s horrified to find he was left on purpose. Stars Emma Fielding.

A mother (Emma Fielding) fears that a child parenting expert (Matthew Marsh) is endangering his own seven-year-old son Henry by testing out his theories of early independence on him.
 
When Anna finds a boy alone and barefoot on Hampstead Heath, she accompanies him home for his own safety. But she is horrified to discover that he was left there on purpose to develop his independence, by his father, the famous parenting expert Professor Horace Henderson.

A thriller which asks whether our society bubble wraps children, whether we have the right to interfere in other people's children's lives and how we become parents with the spectres of our own childhoods still looming over our shoulders.

Based on a novel by the journalist Sophie Radice who contributes to The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent and many magazines. Adapted for radio by award winning writer Charlotte Jones who has written extensively for TV, theatre and radio. Her most celebrated play "Humble Boy has played all over the world, she wrote the book for Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage musical of "The Woman in White" and most recently ITV aired her three-part thriller "Without you".

Anna ... Emma Fielding
Henderson ... Matthew Marsh
Henry ... Finn Monteath
Mother ... Elaine Claxton
David ... Ian Conningham
Jason ... Paul Heath
Policewoman ... Hannah Genesius

Producer ... Liz Webb

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.

15 Minute Drama: The Henry Experiment

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By Sophie Radice. A mother fears that a child parenting expert is endangering his own son.

Thriller based on a novel by Sophie Radice, adapted for radio by Charlotte Jones. A mother fears that a child parenting expert is endangering his own seven-year-old son.

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