Black Eyed Girls by Katie Hims (Omnibus)

Nell finds herself pregnant and marries Barry, not the father, for the sake of respectability.

She has twin girls, Jeanie and Meg, and has a blissful first year raising her daughters. But Barry takes an instant dislike to the girls.

Jeanie and Meg, twin black-eyed girls, are separated at the age of five, one to stay at home, in a working class family in Scarborough, one to be adopted from a children's home by an upper middle class academic family.

And thus their separate fortunes are set in motion, united only by the vaguest memory of being happy together.

Their search for each other continues throughout their lives...

Katie Hims's heartrending story of separated twins and their search for one another.

Omnibus of five parts.

Nell ...... Sabrina Sandhu
Barry ...... Samuel James
Nikki ...... Sanchia MacCormack
Joseph ...... Philip Fox
Meg ...... Charlotte Emmett
Jeanie ...... Rosie Boore
Meg (child) ...... Ailsa McGregor
Jeanie (child) ...... Rosie McGregor
Meg (older) ...... Carolyn Pickles
Jeanie (older) ...... Jessica Turner
Waitress ...... Kerry Gooderson
Vi/Sister Juliana/Nurse ...... Julie Teal
David ...... Tom Forrister
Victor ...... Simon Ludders

Director: Sasha Yevtushenko.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2017.