Limelight: Siege (Radio 4) | BBC Sounds
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Well, shake up my prejudices and slap on my headphones, there was such a great drama series on Radio 4 last week. Modern, real, exciting; great acting, careful sound design, gripping plot. I know! No surprise, though, when you see the writers. Siege is co-written by Katherine Jakeways, who gave us the station’s meet-cute-then-what series Where This Service Will…; Darragh Mortell, who wrote the Prix Europa-winning I Am Kanye West, also for Radio 4; and Eno Mfon, whose one-woman stage play about skin bleaching, Check the Label, was turned into a Channel 4 short. Their considerable forces created a five x 30-minute thriller, produced by BBC Cymru Wales, that zoomed straight on to my best of the year list. Bet you it’s still there in 10 months’ time too.
