Between the Lines

Cheralyn Darcey

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An old-fashioned radio serial for modern ears. Lucy Halloran, 58, divorced, is working in a Newcastle bookshop when a mysterious Thursday regular offers to help her finish the novel she's spent thirty years not writing. His only condition: no questions about who he really is. Lucy has read every one of his books. She knows the charming man is never what he seems.

Sep 3

S2 The Ordinary Wave

At Merewether Baths, the dawn swimmers know the water and they knew Dee. As Lucy and Henry retrace the details of her final morning, one small discovery raises a troubling question: did Dee enter the sea without the one thing she never left behind? Listen now wherever you get your podcasts, or hear it live on The Nightline with Cheralyn Darcey, on The Super Radio Network, Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10:30pm AEST.
Sep 3

S2 Four Mornings a Week

A woman who never missed a dawn swim is found dead near Merewether Baths. The verdict says accident, but her sister knows something about that final morning doesn’t fit. As Lucy and Henry begin to listen, a broken routine, a cryptic message and a stranger in tears suggest the sea may not be holding the whole story. Between the Lines written and read by Cheralyn Darcey can be found live each week on The Super Radio Network M,W&F 10:30pm AEST 'The Nightline with Cheralyn Darcey'
Aug 22

Episode 12: "Ex Libris"

Before dawn, Lucy runs. Slippers, no plan, nothing prepared — just a ferry to catch and a truth she's not willing to let leave the harbour without her. The season finale brings Lucy face to face with everything she's uncovered, and asks her to decide, once and for all, what she's willing to risk for a man who's spent his whole life disappearing. But Newcastle isn't quite done with her yet. Some endings, it turns out, come with one more chapter attached. Between the Lines. Series finale.
Aug 22

Episode 11: "The Last Chapter"

Alone at her kitchen table at three in the morning, Lucy finally gets the truth she's been chasing for weeks — just not from Henry's mouth, and not in the way she expected it. What she reads changes everything she thought she understood about the man she loves, the woman he lost, and the secret that's kept him hidden from the world for eleven years. But truth, once it arrives, has a way of bringing company. And by the time the shop bell rings again that evening, Lucy will learn that some secrets don't stay buried just because you've decided to forgive them.
Aug 22

Episode 10: "The Siege"

Overnight, Lucy's quiet life on Darby Street becomes front-page news and the man at the centre of it has vanished. As Newcastle turns into a circus of cameras and rumour, Lucy finds out just how long the people closest to her have been keeping secrets of their own. And when a courier arrives at the shop with no return address, she's handed a choice she never asked for: read the truth, or burn it.
Aug 15

Episode 9: 'On Her Own Terms'

In Episode 9 of Between the Lines, Lucy struggles to accept a success that no longer feels entirely her own. A quiet conversation with Ada helps her see Henry’s secrecy in a different light, and she finally decides to approach him without questions, evidence or accusations. But just as Lucy prepares to make peace, a shocking development changes everything.
Aug 15

Episode 8: 'The Rule'

In Episode 8 of Between the Lines, Lucy breaks the one rule she promised to keep, forcing a chilling confrontation with Henry over the secrets he’s guarded for years. Hurt and furious, she turns to the unfinished dream she’s carried for more than three decades. But when success finally arrives, Lucy discovers there may be another story unfolding quietly behind the scenes.
Aug 13

Episode 7: Nine Fourteen

There are two kinds of women: the kind who reads a manuscript and thinks fiction, and the kind who ends up at a library microfiche machine at midnight, unable to let it go. Lucy is learning, Thursday by Thursday, how misdirection works from the master of it, all while quietly building a case against the very man teaching her. But someone's been watching the bookshop longer than she realised, and he's waiting for her at the bus stop with a name the inquest never traced.

An old-fashioned radio serial for modern ears. Lucy Halloran, 58, divorced, is working in a Newcastle bookshop when a mysterious Thursday regular offers to help her finish the novel she's spent thirty years not writing. His only condition: no questions about who he really is. Lucy has read every one of his books. She knows the charming man is never what he seems.

Creator

Cheralyn Darcey
Years Active

2026
Episodes

14
Rating

Clean
Copyright

© Cheralyn Darcey
Show Website

Between the Lines