Halfway Here [15 Minute Drama]

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by Lucy Catherine.

The Williams Family bumbles along in a normally dysfunctional way until something happens which causes them all to unravel.

Halfway Here is a beautifully observed account of a family in meltdown by Lucy Catherine.

Lucy Catherine is a distinguished radio, television and film dramatist. Recent TV includes Musketeers, Frankie and Being Human. Listeners will know her from adaptations of The Master and Margarita (which has just won an Audio Drama Award for best adaptation) and Frankenstein, as well as several original dramas.

The excellent cast includes Tyger Drew-Honey (best known as the older son in Outnumbered); Sharon Small, best known for The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Mistresses and Cutting It; and Justin Salinger who, aside from his work in TV and theatre, is well known to Radio 4 listeners.

An accident makes a family question everything they thought they knew.

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0220160209Luke tries to find out who has been making his sister so unhappy.

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0320160210Everyone is feeling the strain of Nettie's situation.

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0420160211Nettie is still in a coma, and the rest of the family is finding it a strain.

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0520160212Ailsa is struggling to accept that her daughter will never recover.

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0620160215Fifteen-year-old Nettie is still being kept alive artificially after her accident.

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0720160216Luke is still keeping watch by his sister's hospital bedside.

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0820160217Luke is desperate to communicate with his comatose twin sister somehow.

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0920160218Nettie is still being kept on life support as her pregnancy continues.

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1020160219Luke's dark night of the soul is over.

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