Black Eyed Girls

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Sabrina Sandhu

Samuel James

Julie Teal

Philip Fox

Sanchia MacCormack

Charlotte Emmett

Rosie Boore

Sasha Yevtushenko

Katie Hims

Black Eyed Girls by Katie Hims: Episode 2

Episode 2

Black Eyed Girls by Katie Hims

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A child psychologist wants to adopt Jeanie. Twin sister Meg is told not to speak of her.

An eminent child psychologist wants to adopt Jeanie. But her twin sister Meg is told not to speak of her. With Charlotte Emmett.

Jeanie has lived in a children's home for two years, and has caught the attention of Joseph Campbell Clark, an eminent child psychologist who decides he wants to adopt her as an academic project. 

For his wife, Jeanie is not a project, she is a yearned-for child. 

Meanwhile, her twin sister Meg is told to stop speaking about her at home.

Katie Hims's heartrending story of separated twins and their search for one another.

Nell . . . . . Sabrina Sandhu
Barry . . . . . Samuel James 
Sister Juliana . . . . . Julie Teal 
Joseph . . . . . Philip Fox 
Nikki . . . . . Sanchia MacCormack 
Meg . . . . . Charlotte Emmett 
Jeanie . . . . . Rosie Boore

Director: Sasha Yevtushenko

First broadcast on Radio 4 in September 2017.

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Poignant drama by Katie Hims that follows the lives of separated twins.

Poignant drama by Katie Hims that follows separated twins, whose lives diverge and converge, in class, geography and happiness, across the last 60 years.

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