The Counsellor
When a school counsellor is tasked with investigating a teenage boy with unnerving powers of persuasion, she risks everything to uncover the truth.
Winner of the Alfred Bradley Award 2025 - Abby Walker's debut audio drama.
When Miss Alexander, a disenfranchised counsellor in a run-down North East school faces redundancy, the opportunity to prove her worth arises in the form of Connor, a teenage boy with unnerving powers of persuasion. Armed with a dictaphone and the secrets of his classmates, Miss Alexander works to uncover the strange hold he has over his fellow pupils and the school. But the deeper she digs, the closer she is drawn into Connor’s orbit, with dangerous consequences. With one student dead and Connor’s attention now fixed on her, Miss Alexander must risk everything to prove his guilt before it's too late.
MISS ALEXANDER......Chelsea Halfpenny
CONNOR.....Lewis Bowes
JOSIE.....Sarah Balfour
ELLIE.....Charlotte Bradley
MARIA......Matilda Freeman
MR COLE.....George Bukhari
KATYA.....Angela Lonsdale
STUDENTS.....Gwenllian Mears, George MacGowan
Writer - Abby Walker
Director/ Producer -Nadia Molinari
Sound Designer and Technical Producer -Sharon Hughes
Script Editor and Production Co-ordinator - Pippa Day
Technical Producer- Kelly Young
Casting Manager - Alex Curran
A BBC STUDIOS PRODUCTION FOR BBC RADIO 4
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- Tue 17 Mar 202614:15BBC Radio 4
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