Part Two: Every Two Years

James Fritz's award-winning drama series about the UK prison system continues with the second of two contrasting stories of release.

In this second episode, a prisoner (who listeners met in Series 1) prepares for his parole hearing. He was sentenced under an Imprisonment for Public Protection order with a minimum tariff of two years and seven months. That was fourteen years ago, and five parole attempts have already failed. Today, across the table from a Parole Board member, he gets another chance.

Playing out in real time, the drama takes us inside the heads of both prisoner and panellist as they wrestle with what the hearing cannot quite contain. What has fourteen years of indefinite imprisonment done to a man? And how do you judge whether he is safe to release when the thing that has damaged him most is the waiting itself?

Martin ..... Connor Finch
Sally ..... Jemima Rooper
Michael ..... Robert Glenister

Production Team:
Producer and Director, Tracey Neale
Sound Design, Keith Graham, Sam Dickinson and Andrew Garrett
Production Co-Ordinator, Ben Hollands

A BBC Studios production.

James Fritz has won the Imison and Tinniswood Awards, Best Single and Best Series at the Audio Drama Awards, and Gold and Bronze at the ARIAs. For his theatre work he has won the Critics' Circle Award and the Bruntwood Prize, and was nominated for an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. He is under commission to the RSC, on attachment to the National Theatre, and is currently writing a TV drama and adapting his play The Flea into a feature film.