Not A Love Story [15 Minute Drama]

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012012050720171211 (R4)When Maddie Cook is violently raped by someone she thought was friend, she is urged by the Police to prosecute her attacker, with decidedly mixed results

Madeleine Cook is 24 and, for the last nine months, she's been living back home with her parents whilst she temps and tries to pay off her student loan. Her boyfriend Nick is still living in London, and they see each other whenever they can.

Madeleine still has old friends from school days and a clutch of new ones. They meet up in local pubs most weekends. Like everywhere now the bars are open late, the drinks are cheap and usually most of them get anything between tipsy and very drunk. The sort of normal weekend behaviour you find in every town and city, but it being a small, relatively middle class place, it's less violent and not particularly aggressive.

Stunned, shocked, she calls her friend Louise, and together they go to a rape crisis centre. The next day, Louise persuades her to go to the police.

Maddie Cook - Jasmine Hyde

Danny King - Mark Quartley

Meg Harper .....Haydn Gwynne

Janet - Jeany Spark

Barry - Jonathan Tafler

Ned - Jonathan Sayer

Maddie publicly identifies the man who raped her but soon regrets involving the police.

022012050820171212 (R4)Naively, Maddie hopes for the quick conviction of her attacker.

Maddie Cook - Jasmine Hyde

Meg Harper - Haydn Gwynne

Helen - Jeany Spark

Ned - Jonathan Sayer

032012050920171213 (R4)Maddie begins to regret having involved the Police in the rape.

Maddy Cook - Jasmine Hyde

Danny King - Mark Quartley

Meg Harper - Haydn Gwynne

Helen - Jeany Spark

Maddie begins to regret having involved the police in the rape case.

042012051020171214 (R4)Maddie's decision to identify her rapist her divides her friends.

Maddy Cook - Jasmine Hyde

Meg Harper - Haydn Gwynne

Helen - Jeany Spark

Jamie - Mark Quartley

Ned - Jonathan Sayer

Maddie's decision to identify her rapist divides her friends.

05 LAST2012051120171215 (R4)The rapist's testimony seems to sway the jury.

Maddie Cooke - Jasmine Hyde

Danny King - Mark Quartley

Meg Harper - Haydn Gwynne

Prosecution Barrister - Jeany Spark

Chambers - Jonathan Tafler

Ned - Jonathan Sayer

The rapist's tear-stricken testimony makes an impression on an already credulous jury.