Tess of the Tollbooth

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The festive season is in full swing, New Year is looming, a time for renewal and Tess is stuck in a box. Literally in a box. Wrangling the small change and the big issues of the night owls who cross the toll bridge. Tess feels like everyone’s going somewhere, except her. The only delight in the dark for Tess is Rob, a drummer who crosses the bridge most nights on his way home from a regular house band gig. But can you really get to know someone in multiple twenty-second intervals? Maybe even fall for him? As Tess’s night shift world steadily descends into a festive farce there’s a life to be saved before New Year’s Day. It might even be hers… From award winning author and BBC Radio 4 comedy writer Ali Sparkes, inspired by the tales of tollbooth workers on Southampton’s Itchen Bridge, TESS ..... Shaparak Khorsandi KEL ..... Rosie Cavaliero BOBBY ..... Hasan Dixon ROB ..... Jonathan Forbes DARREN ..... Kiell Smith-Bynoe Directed by Nadia Molinari A BBC Audio Drama North Production