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Life Rights by Nicholas Meiklejohn

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Short Works
Gwen is 82. Life should be quieter these days… but the Pwca is back.
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RD Wingfield
Bill Croll, a detective agency owner, gets a terminal diagnosis - and a new case.

Two estranged friends - now in their early 40s – are reunited. One’s been stuck in the small Scottish town where they grew up, having grudgingly taken over his family’s moribund business. The other found modest and fleeting success as an indie filmmaker. When the filmmaker shows up with an unusual request, it sparks contradictory memories of the past. Nicholas Meiklejohn’s drama is about the fragility of memory, ambition, familial expectations, and the frustrations of looming middle age. Jack ..... Robert Jack Danny ..... Sandy Grierson Director Gaynor Macfarlane First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2022.

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