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Alun Armstrong

Deborah Findlay

Gina McKee

Deka Walmsley

Michael Chaplin

Marilyn Imrie

Drama on 4: The Ferryhill Philosophers: Moral Status and the Golden Boy

Moral Status and the Golden Boy

The Ferryhill Philosophers

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The mother of a boy on a life support machine asks for Joe's help with a hard decision.

The mother of a boy on a life support machine asks for Joe's help and tells him something which changes everything. With Alun Armstrong and Deborah Findlay.

By Michael Chaplin. The parents of a young boy grievously injured in a cycling accident face the terrible decision of whether to leave him on a life-support machine indefinitely - or to switch it off. 

The boy's mother asks Joe to help her husband face up to the decision - and tells Joe something which changes everything. 

Alun Armstrong and Deborah Findlay star as the ex-Durham miner and the University philosopher who, together, bring human compassion and philosophy to bear in facing up to some of life's hardest dilemmas.

Directed by Marilyn Imrie
A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4.

Drama on 4: The Ferryhill Philosophers

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By Michael Chaplin. An ex-miner and a senior lecturer wrestle with philosophical dilemmas.

By Michael Chaplin. An unlikely duo, an ex-miner and a senior philosophy lecturer, wrestle with the collision between moral philosophy and the sundry dilemmas of a small village by

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