28 min

Steelheads – Episode 1: Lady in the Water Limelight

    • Drama

When a young British tennis pro, Joleen Kenzie (Jessica Barden), is diagnosed with a rare terminal illness, she has herself cryogenically frozen at an experimental lab in Seattle, in the hope that one day – perhaps hundreds of years into the future - there will be a cure and she can be revived.
She wakes up to a world divided... and Joleen is now captive.
From the creators of The Cipher and Passenger List, a chilling new medical thriller inspired by true events starring Jessica Barden.
Cast:
JOLEEN – Jessica Barden
LUTHER – Bruce Lester Johnson
IZZY – Lizzie Stables
LUCINDA – Annabelle Dowler
WAYNE – Daniel Ryan
PADMA – Jennifer Armour
EARL – Kerry Shale
OSCAR – Jason Forbes
RICHARD – Eric Meyers
ANDREI – Andrew Byron
SUE – Laurel Lefkow
GREG – Christopher Ragland
STOLYA – Yanina Hope
Original Theme composed by Pascal Wyse
Written and Created by Brett Neichin and John Scott Dryden
Script Editing by Mike Walker
Sound Design by Steve Bond
Sound Editor: Adam Woodhams
Assistant Producer: Eleanor Mein
Trails by Jack Soper
Produced by Emma Hearn
Director and Executive Producer: John Scott Dryden
A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4

When a young British tennis pro, Joleen Kenzie (Jessica Barden), is diagnosed with a rare terminal illness, she has herself cryogenically frozen at an experimental lab in Seattle, in the hope that one day – perhaps hundreds of years into the future - there will be a cure and she can be revived.
She wakes up to a world divided... and Joleen is now captive.
From the creators of The Cipher and Passenger List, a chilling new medical thriller inspired by true events starring Jessica Barden.
Cast:
JOLEEN – Jessica Barden
LUTHER – Bruce Lester Johnson
IZZY – Lizzie Stables
LUCINDA – Annabelle Dowler
WAYNE – Daniel Ryan
PADMA – Jennifer Armour
EARL – Kerry Shale
OSCAR – Jason Forbes
RICHARD – Eric Meyers
ANDREI – Andrew Byron
SUE – Laurel Lefkow
GREG – Christopher Ragland
STOLYA – Yanina Hope
Original Theme composed by Pascal Wyse
Written and Created by Brett Neichin and John Scott Dryden
Script Editing by Mike Walker
Sound Design by Steve Bond
Sound Editor: Adam Woodhams
Assistant Producer: Eleanor Mein
Trails by Jack Soper
Produced by Emma Hearn
Director and Executive Producer: John Scott Dryden
A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4

28 min

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