麻豆社

A newly commissioned serial from Alice Jolly about love, loyalty and the meaning of care, exploring the emotions at the heart of a family crisis.

After their mother鈥檚 death, sisters Leah and Tiffany know their father needs support. Ebullient, charming and and unreliable, Ronnie Maker has lived life at speed and he has no intention of slipping gently into a peaceful old age. How will he cope in a remote Yorkshire village on his own, with his daughters so far away, so constantly busy?
When a neighbour offers to help out, it seems like an ideal, if temporary, solution.

But the sisters cannot be sure what lies behind Marika鈥檚 offer of help and, as the crisis of their father鈥檚 situation mounts, it brings to the surface suspicions, old resentments and guilt.

Alice Jolly writes: 鈥淎t its heart, this story is about who cares, in every sense of the word, in a society where the whole question of 鈥榗are鈥� is a fraught and urgent issue. It circles around a demanding man, but it鈥檚 ultimately about the women around him and how they deal with loyalty and love.鈥�

Episode 4. There鈥檚 no going back once Leah reveals what she has learnt about their mother鈥檚 death.

Alice Jolly is a novelist and playwright. She has won a Royal Society of Literature V.S.Pritchett Memorial prize, the Pen/Ackerley Prize and an O. Henry Award, and was runner-up for the Rathbones Folio Prize for her novel Mary Anne Sate, Imbecile. Her short story collection From Far Around They Saw Us Burn was published in 2023.

Fiona Button, the reader, played Rose Defoe in The Split (麻豆社 1). As well as many television roles, she has starred in shows at the RSC, Almeida, Royal Court, Donmar Warehouse and in the West End.

Writer: Alice Jolly
Reader: Fiona Button
Producer: Sara Davies
Executive Producer: Peter Hoare
Sound Design: Matt Bainbridge
Production Manager: Sarah Wright

A Pier production for 麻豆社 Radio 4

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