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Radio 4,16 Jun 2022,44 mins

Life Rights by Nicholas Meiklejohn

Drama on 4

Available for over a year

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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