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How a true email friendship grew between BBC journalist Bee Rowlatt and Iraq-based academic May Witwit. With Souad Faress.

2005. Bee, a London journalist, contacts May, an Iraqi academic, about life in her battle-scarred country.

Neither foresees the dramatic events that will change their lives.

The story of BBC journalist Bee Rowlatt's email friendship with Iraq-based academic, May Witwit.

Dramatised in five parts by John Fletcher.

May ...... Souad Faress
Bee ...... Fenella Woolgar
Ali ...... Zubin Varla
Justin ...... Stephen Hogan
Eva/Ayasha ...... Deeivya Meir
Militia Man/Official/Minister ...... Peter Polycarpou
Newsnight director ...... Jonathan Forbes
Lawyer/Octavia ...... Elaine Claxton

Director: Peter Kavanagh

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2011

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