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Ship of Lies: 5. Conspiracy

5. Conspiracy

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Emma becomes certain she is facing an organised conspiracy.

With Danny missing, and Pinkertons in menacing mood, Emma’s certain she is facing an organised conspiracy. Stars Jasmine Hyde.

With Danny missing, and Pinkertons in a menacing mood, Emma’s certain she is facing an organised conspiracy. Or could she just be the victim of too much information?

She came to New York to find answers but has instead ended up in a maze of questions. Is Danny right – there is no objective truth? Will the technology of this new century, which promised to reveal it, offer only more ways to avoid and obscure it? 

Delirious with exhaustion, she is hit by a car. Waking, she’s in a hospital and a doctor is with her. The doctor encourages Emma to talk. It all comes out in a rush – her grief at her fiancé’s death, inability to accept it, need to get answers, then her journey to New York and the bewildering things she’s found here.

When the doctor asks her if she’s any proof the alleged fiancé even existed, she says his letters to her and photograph are in her stolen purse. She has nothing to prove that he died, or that he ever lived. She doesn’t even have evidence of who she is herself.
 
"How long will I be here?" she asks. 

"As long as it takes to cure you. Or until you can provide the proof that this man really existed."

Produce the facts which prove her case. After all, Facts are facts, aren’t they?

Written by Ron Hutchinson.  

EMMA ……Jasmine Hyde
DANNY …. Nathan Osgood
SWANSON .…  Colin Stinton
HAVERMAYER … Matt Rippy
DOCTOR ….Patrick Bailey
NURSE .... Laurel Lefkow

Director:  Eoin O'Callaghan

A Big Fish Radio production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2019.

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