People Who Knew Me

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In an audio format, it can be hard to know whether you want to stick around to hear what happens to the protagonist – but you can rest assured with Pike's captivating performance, which gives much-needed compassion and humanity to this complex character. This fine and weighty work brings to mind Chopin’s The Awakening and Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler while turning the tables on those as well. Then Hooper creates a new challenge in her protagonist’s life fourteen years later in California: Connie is diagnosed with a potentially terminal disease, and must decide whether to tell her teenage daughter Claire the truth about her New York father, or let Claire continue to believe that he died in a car accident. But the station has completely revamped itself around its scheduling pillars, offering a wide variety of new programmes, most of which have worked.

On the other hand, it is rare that a novelist is brave enough to provide such realistic scenarios, which makes the difficulties of her protagonist believable and ensures a thought-provoking read.

First up, I have an issue with any author that refers to a doctor as “a little Indian man” when there’s no reason for it in the narrative. Also features excellent contributions from Una Mullally, Fintan O'Toole, Olivia O'Leary and Colm Tóibín. Once she loses her advertising job, she lands another one at the firm working for a man she broke a date with in college, Gabe. In NYC of the 1990s, Emily had begun young married life to her college sweetheart with optimism that gradually falls victim to harsh setbacks and disillusionment.

Savenok / Getty Images for Audio Publishers Association The series apparently takes a satirical jab or two at Goop, the wellness company founded by Gwyneth Paltrow. I don’t actually think you can redeem a character like Emily, but that makes for a pretty horrible person and I book I didn’t like. We follow Connie in the present as she grapples with cancer treatment, her role as a mother and relationship with Claire.Resolved to tell her husband of the affair and to leave him for the father of her child, Emily’s plans are thwarted when the world is suddenly split open on 9/11.

A friendship with her sassy work colleague highlights the failings of her marriage, further compounded by Drew's restaurant falling through. Realising there might not be another opportunity, Connie and Claire embark on their road trip, stopping in New York to finally meet Drew.

It broadcast that same day on Radio 4 in an 11am slot and then right after the episode, host Joshua Baker appeared each week on Naga Munchetty's show on 5 Live to discuss the revelations and answer listener questions. The stumbling block to their dreams turns out to be Drew’s mother who develops Parkinson’s disease and eventually needs full-time care.

It’s a great listen – a rollercoaster of a story that keeps you hooked and wanting more until the end. There's evidence to suggest that some people likely used the tragedy of 9/11 to fake their own deaths. WHERE: New “ People Who Knew Me” episodes will be released twice weekly on-demand across all major podcast platforms. She must decide how to explain her lies, her secrets, her selfish decisions – and ultimately her “widowed husband. Jumping between present-day California, and 9/11 New York City, the novel focuses on the decisions Emily makes after that fateful day.Dylan Haskins (Commissioning Editor) said: “Sharon Horgan has been the creative genius behind some of the best TV dramas of recent years – Bad Sisters, Catastrophe, Motherland – and now she, along with the Merman / Mermade team and Daniella, are turning their hands to audio drama for the first time.