The Price of Oil: No Two Days

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Faye Marsay

Paul Higgins

Sam Dale

Amelia Lowdell

Jessica Turner

David Hounslow

Mark Edel-Hunt

Joy Wilkinson

Nicolas Kent

Jonquil Panting

No Two Days

The Price of Oil

BBC Radio 4 - The Price of Oil, No Two Days

Faye Marsay and Paul Higgins star in a maze of tales about risk, passion and deep-sea oil.

Faye Marsay and Paul Higgins star in a maze of tales about risk, passion and deep-sea oil. Part of a season exploring the history of oil - and the price we've paid for it.

Faye Marsay and Paul Higgins star in Joy Wilkinson's maze of tales about risk, passion and deep-sea oil.

On 20th April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon rig explodes, spilling millions of gallons of oil into the Mexican Gulf. An ambitious young journalist is determined to investigate, but her story becomes confused between youthful romantic dreams and reality. It leads her to a massive old oil rig off the coast of Aberdeen, and a grizzled but good-looking drilling engineer. Their lives become entwined in a sparkling series of alternative stories about the risks, rewards and realities of deep-sea drilling.

The Price of Oil season of factual dramas explores the history of oil - and the price we've paid for it. It takes us from 1951 to 2045, and around the world from Iran to Alaska, Libya, Nigeria, Turkmenistan, Washington and onto Scotland's offshore rigs, to explore the role oil has played in shaping our world.

Devised by Nicolas Kent, with Jack Bradley & Jonathan Myerson, the season was produced by Jonquil Panting for BBC Audio.

As director of London’s Tricycle theatre for almost 30 years, Nicolas Kent championed responsive factual and political drama, including seasons of plays by renowned writers about Afghanistan (The Great Game) and nuclear weapons (The Bomb). Now he brings that experience to BBC Radio 4, to tell the story of oil.


Izzy ..... Faye Marsay
Richard ..... Paul Higgins
Marco ..... Sam Dale
Samantha ..... Amelia Lowdell
Shahana ..... Jessica Turner
Dudley ..... David Hounslow 
Steve ..... Mark Edel-Hunt

No Two Days was directed by Nicolas Kent.

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Season of factual dramas exploring the history of oil and the price we have paid for it.

A season of dramas exploring the history of oil - and the price we've paid for it. Devised by Nicolas Kent, with Jack Bradley and Jonathan Myerson.

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