One Hundred and Fifty Days

In 2023, award winning audio dramatist Oliver Emanuel was part way through writing a new play for radio when something happened to him and he found he could no longer read. This is his story: a powerful and poetic drama that is part audio play and part autobiography...

A man and a woman are caught in a rip tide, the life they might have had together - flashing in front of their eyes.

Another man and a woman are caught in an impossible situation, the life they have together - flashing in front of their eyes.

One Hundred and Fifty Days is drawn from The Great Wave - Oliver Emanuel's unfinished audio drama and from All My Reading – his creative response to the experience of brain cancer.

These two pieces of writing were edited together by Victoria Beesley and Kirsty Williams.

Performed by:

Robin Laing Shauna Macdonald Robert Jack

Sound Design by Fraser Jackson

Directed by Kirsty Williams

Details of support with cancer are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline.