Episodes
| Episode | First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | 20170925 | Nell finds herself pregnant and marries Barry, not the father, for the sake of respectability. She has twin girls, Jeanie and Meg, and has a blissful first year raising her daughters. But Barry takes an instant dislike to the girls. Jeanie and Meg, twin black-eyed girls, are separated at the age of five, one to stay at home, in a working class family in Scarborough, one to be adopted from a children's home by an upper middle class academic family. And thus their separate fortunes are set in motion, united only by the vaguest memory of being happy together. Their search for each other continues throughout their lives. Written in five parts by Katie Hims. Nell . . . . . Sabrina Sandhu Barry . . . . . Samuel James Vi . . . . . Julie Teal Meg . . . . . Ailsa McGregor Jeanie . . . . . Rosie McGregor Waitress . . . . . Kerry Gooderson Katie Hims is one of radio's most cherished writers. She wrote the award-winning Lost Property, The Gunshot Wedding and The Earthquake Girl. Director: Sasha Yevtushenko First broadcast on Radio 4 in September 2017. Nell finds herself pregnant and marries Barry, not the father, for respectability. Poignant drama by Katie Hims that follows the lives of separated twins. |
| 02 | 20170926 | Jeanie has lived in a children's home for two years, and has caught the attention of Joseph Campbell Clark, an eminent child psychologist who decides he wants to adopt her as an academic project.
For his wife, Jeanie is not a project, she is a yearned-for child.
Meanwhile, her twin sister Meg is told to stop speaking about her at home.
Katie Hims's heartrending story of separated twins and their search for one another.
Nell . . . . . Sabrina Sandhu
Director: Sasha Yevtushenko
First broadcast on Radio 4 in September 2017.
A child psychologist wants to adopt Jeanie. Twin sister Meg is told not to speak of her. Poignant drama by Katie Hims that follows the lives of separated twins. |
| 03 | 20170927 | On a trip to Scarborough, twins Meg and Jeanie meet on the beach.
Nell stabs Harry at the dinner table. Out of the blue. In the arm.
Katie Hims's heartrending story of separated twins and their search for one another.
Nell . . . . . Sabrina Sandhu
Director: Sasha Yevtushenko
First broadcast on Radio 4 in September 2017.
On a trip to Scarborough, Meg and Jeanie meet on the beach, and Nell stabs Harry. Poignant drama by Katie Hims that follows the lives of separated twins. |
| 04 | 20170928 | On the day of her Cambridge interview, Jeanie takes a train instead to Scarborough, in search of a twin sister she faintly remembers.
Meanwhile, Meg has a baby girl, who she wants to name Jeanie.
Katie Hims's heartrending story of separated twins and their search for one another.
Jeanie . . . . . Jennifer Walser
Director: Sasha Yevtushenko
First broadcast on Radio 4 in September 2017.
Katie Hims' heartrending story of separated twins and their search for one another. Poignant drama by Katie Hims that follows the lives of separated twins. |
| 05 | 20170929 | Meg and Jeanie have not set eyes on one another since they were 11.
Now they are in their late sixties, and have ended up boarding the same train. One thing leads to another.
The conclusion of Katie Hims's heartrending story of separated twins and their search for one another.
Jeanie . . . . . Jessica Turner
Director: Sasha Yevtushenko
First broadcast on Radio 4 in September 2017.
Katie Hims' heartrending story of separated twins and their search for one another. Poignant drama by Katie Hims that follows the lives of separated twins. |