Episode 3

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Ruby Lennox’s family is ostensibly ordinary. But behind the scenes, secrets, lies and inexplicable coincidences are waiting to be found. In Kate Atkinson’s beguiling Behind the Scenes at the Museum, the effervescent Ruby pulls at threads at to unravel a tragi-comic story of family love, loss and heartbreak that spans a century. Starring Rosie Cavaliero, Kate O'Flynn and Samuel James. Behind the Scenes at the Museum won the Whitbread Best Book of the Year in 1995, and is now dramatised by one of our very best audio writers, Katie Hims, for BBC Radio 4. This is the final episode. Ruby’s growing up, and in doing so, she must unearth the ghosts of her past, that have lain buried for a lifetime. CAST Ruby ..... Rosie Cavaliero Bunty ..... Kate O’Flynn George ..... Samuel James Young Ruby ..... Maddie Evans Young Patricia ..... Lauren Patel Clive ..... Ian Dunnett Jnr Nell ..... Jessica Turner Older Patricia ..... Jane Slavin Alice ..... Ruth Everett Jean-Paul ..... Charlie Anson Bernard ..... David Hounslow Daisy ..... Shreya Lallu Dramatist ..... Katie Hims Director ..... Anne Isger Production Co-ordinators ..... Jenny Mendez and Maggie Olgiati Sound ..... Keith Graham, Ali Craig, Andy Garratt A BBC Studios Audio Production for BBC Radio 4 KATIE HIMS Katie has written extensively in audio drama including multiple leading adaptations for BBC Radio 4: Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'ubervilles, George Eliot's Middlemarch, Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls and The Martin Beck Killings by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo. Katie was also lead writer on BBC's Home Front and other radio work includes Black Eyed Girls (winner of the BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Original Drama), Lost Property (winner of the BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Original Drama), The Gunshot Wedding (winner of The Writer’s Guild Best Original Radio Drama) and The Earthquake Girl (winner of the Richard Imison Award). In TV Katie is developing an original grounded sci-fi drama with Hooley Productions, and has episodic experience on BBC's long running series Casualty. In theatre, Katie is currently on attachment at the National Theatre. Her recent stage work includes a contemporary retelling of Kafka's The Trial which ran at The Unicorn Theatre in 2023 and received 4 and 5 star reviews.