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15 Minute Drama: How Does That Make You Feel?

Roger Allam

Frances Tomelty

Shelagh Stephenson

Eoin O'Callaghan

15 Minute Drama: How Does That Make You Feel?: Episode 5: Richard Fallon

How Does That Make You Feel

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Episode 5: Richard Fallon

How Does That Make You Feel?

Richard Fallon

BBC Radio 4 - 15 Minute Drama, How Does That Make You Feel?, Richard Fallon

An ill-judged tweet discloses Richard's confidential invitation to appear on reality TV.

Having been asked to appear on a TV reality show, Richard imagines the revival of his flagging career. However, he now suspects he may have become the butt of some ghastly joke.

Rabid constituents and demented and disastrous Tinder dates have cast Richard into a new slough of despondency. And then, the one light at the end of the tunnel - an invitation to appear on a popular TV reality show - is extinguished, when he inadvertently publicises his highly confidential invitation in a late night tweet. Richard now faces a sea of ignominy as the producers of the TV show deny all knowledge of him, and the horrible suspicion occurs to him that someone may have been playing a cruel and deeply humiliating prank - leaving Richard in a state of complete and abject despair.

Shelagh Stephenson is the author of Radio 4's 'A Short History of Longing' and 'Guests Are Like Fish'. She is an Olivier Award winner for her play 'The Memory of Water' and has won Sony and Writer's Guild awards for her plays 'Darling Peidi' and 'Five Kinds of Silence'. 

Richard Fallon ..... Roger Allam 
Martha ..... Frances Tomelty 

Writer ..... Shelagh Stephenson 
Director ..... Eoin O'Callaghan
Producer ..... Eoin O'Callaghan.

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