The Testament of Jessie Lamb

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Holliday Grainger

Mark Jordon

Oliver Lee

Nisa Cole

Will Finlason

Nadia Molinari

Jane Rogers

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Jessie's world is in crisis, but her father’s adamant she shouldn’t volunteer.

Jessie's world is in crisis, but her father’s adamant  she shouldn’t  volunteer as a Sleeping Beauty. Stars Holliday Grainger.

Jessie becomes increasingly certain that sacrificing her own life for a healthy baby is the most important thing she can do. 

But her plan to become a Sleeping Beauty hits an obstacle. 

Starring Holliday Grainger.

Jane Rogers dramatises her award-winning novel set in a future where an act of biological terrorism has spread a deadly virus across the world.

Jessie ...... Holliday Grainger
Joe ...... Mark Jordon
Baz ...... Oliver Lee
Lisa ...... Nisa Cole
Iain ...... Will Finlason

Director: Nadia Molinari

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2013.

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Can teenager Jessie Lamb save humanity when biological terrorism puts the world in peril?

Can teenager Jessie Lamb save humanity after biological terrorism threatens to wipe out the human race?

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