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Radio 4,11 Oct 2018,44 mins

When The Pips Stop

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It’s 2:13pm on a remote Scottish island where the only inhabitants are two sisters. One of them hasn’t spoken to the other for over two years. They’re listening to The Archers, and then BBC Radio 4 goes off-air. Now they have to learn to live together and without the one thing they each cherish: Radio 4. Written by By Oliver Emanuel. Older …... Shauna Macdonald Younger …... Jessica Hardwick Icelandic man ..…. Jakob Jakobsson Radio Announcer ...… Ken Mitchell Director: Kirsty Williams First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2018.

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