Episodes
| Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | The Letter | 20141020 | 20160307 (R4) | In Rachel Joyce's best selling novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Queenie Hennessy is told she has days to live. She sends a letter of rose pink paper in which she bids goodbye to Harold Fry. It is a letter that inspires a walk, a cast of well-wishers, a journey of its own. Harold will save her. Harold's story began its life as an award winning Radio 4 play so it only seems apt that this companion novel should grace the airwaves too. In this novel there is a second letter - a quieter, longer, more complicated letter. It is in this one that Queenie reveals the shocking and beautiful truth of her life. It is Queenie's story and it is a love song to the man she loves. 'It's all very well for a man to step out of his front door and tell his friend to wait while he walks the length of England. It's an entirely different kettle of fish when you are the woman at the other end.' Directed by Tracey Neale. Queenie Hennessy reveals the shocking and beautiful truth of her life. Classic and contemporary original drama and book dramatisations |
| 02 | Harold Fry | 20141021 | 20160308 (R4) | By Rachel Joyce While Harold Fry walks from Devon to the hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Queenie makes notes and Sister Mary Inconnue types them up. They won't stop until he arrrives and that is how Queenie will keep waiting. Queenie - Sophie Thompson Harold - Paul Venables Sister Mary Inconnue - Roslyn Hill Sister Catherine - Elaine Claxton Sister Lucy - Hannah Genesius Finty - Jane Slavin Mr Henderson - Michael Bertenshaw Napier - Shaun Mason Directed by Tracey Neale Award-winning writer Rachel Joyce's first novel told Harold's story. This is Queenie's. Classic and contemporary original drama and book dramatisations |
| 03 | David | 20141022 | 20160309 (R4) | By Rachel Joyce As Harold walks, Queenie writes. She tells of how she fell in love with Harold twenty four years ago and the day she met his son, David. Queenie - Sophie Thompson Harold - Paul Venables Sister Mary Inconnue - Roslyn Hill David - Monty d'Inverno Sister Catherine - Elaine Claxton Sister Lucy - Hannah Genesius Finty - Jane Slavin Mr Henderson - Michael Bertenshaw Directed by Tracey Neale Award-winning writer Rachel Joyce's first novel told Harold's story. This is Queenie's. Classic and contemporary original drama and book dramatisations |
| 04 | Poems | 20141023 | 20160310 (R4) | By Rachel Joyce Harold Fry has been walking forty days and Queenie waits. She writes and Sister Mary types. Did David steal the poems and will Queenie's secret be revealed? Queenie - Sophie Thompson Harold - Paul Venables Sister Mary Inconnue - Roslyn Hill David - Monty d'Inverno Sister Catherine - Elaine Claxton Sister Lucy - Hannah Genesius Finty - Jane Slavin Mr Henderson - Michael Bertenshaw Directed by Tracey Neale Award-winning writer Rachel Joyce's first novel told Harold's story. This is Queenie's. Classic and contemporary original drama and book dramatisations |
| 05 | The Arrival | 20141024 | 20160311 (R4) | By Rachel Joyce Queenie is waiting for Harold Fry to arrive but she is runnng out of time. As she writes we discover why she has hidden away from him for over twenty years. Queenie - Sophie Thompson Harold - Paul Venables Sister Mary Inconnue - Roslyn Hill Sister Catherine - Elaine Claxton Sister Lucy - Hannah Genesius Finty - Jane Slavin Mr Henderson - Michael Bertenshaw David - Monty d'Inverno Directed by Tracey Neale Award-winning writer, Rachel Joyce's first novel told Harold's story. This is Queenie's. Classic and contemporary original drama and book dramatisations |