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Setting a Glass

02/11/2010

Nick Warburton - Setting a Glass

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Nick Warburton - Setting a Glass

A man arriving at the bedside of his unwell elderly mother can't sit with her. Why?

A man is called to hospital to see his ailing mother, but unknowingly does anything to avoid her bedside. Stars James Fleet.

By Nick Warburton

A man is summoned to a hospital where his elderly mother is fading away. He arrives in the middle of the night and walks through empty corridors looking for a coffee machine. So why is he avoiding sitting at his mother's bedside? 

He gets talking to an auxiliary nurse, a disgruntled but determined young woman whose life is starting, just as his mother's is ending. As he tells this complete stranger about his mother's uneventful life, her small achievements, he comes to understand some of the mechanisms at play in his strange inability to sit with her.

Directed by Peter Kavanagh.

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