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Photograph by Jemima Wand
Cast photographs by Zosia
(that's why they're a bit blurred)
15 Minute Drama Serial on BBC Radio 4
Monday 12 to Friday 16 May 2014
Clare returns to Ulverston 19 years after a tragedy took place expecting to put the past behind her, but she is shocked to discover the treehouse where it all happened is still there.
"He liked a secret, Mark. He could keep a secret.
Pull it out, like a knife, when he needed to, run his finger up and down the blade, watch you while he was doing it. One finger sliding up and down, letting you know."
Mark: William Ash
Guy: Jason Done
Divvie: Lee Ingleby
India: Emma Cunniffe
Julie: Lyndsey Marshall
Producer: Nadia Molinari
Treehouse cast (l-r): Julie (Lyndsey Marshall), Divvie (Lee Ingleby), Guy (Jason Done), India (Emma Cunniffe), Clare (Joanne Mitchell) and Mark (William Ash)
Recording at Media City, Manchester
Recording at Media City, Manchester
May 2014
The Treehouse – BBC Radio 4 Broadcast
Five part thriller set in Ulverston. The message: He deserved it, scrawled across a woodland treehouse where a teenager fell to his death twenty years before causes panic among his remaining friends.
"Radio 4 can be relied
upon to offer up regular crime thrillers - and they don't get more
psychological in tone than The Treehouse. All the things I loved about Broadchurch
are
here in spades. There's the setting in a tight-knit community (in this case
a market town
in Cumbria). Then come the gradual, teasing reveals of
possible motivation. But best of
all is a cast of characters any one of
whom could prove to be the killer."
Jane Anderson, Radio
Times Pick Of The Week
Listener feedback via Twitter & email:
“Great writing!”
“Excellent & most powerful. Oh how abusers can manipulate.”
“Excellent gripping stuff.”
"I particularly like its attack and intensity.”
"Fantastic and it felt so real. I expect to bump into India when I'm out tomorrow."
“Beautiful ending”
“fabulous ending!”
“a brilliant radio drama. Would make an equally brilliant novel"
“Beautifully done.”
“I love the characters, they're incredibly vivid!”
“OMG! Amazing,
I am hooked already and can't wait for the next instalment, 15 mins
is NOT
enough.”
“the images I
have in my head are really vivid, my imagination is really running away
with
me.”
“I heard The
Treehouse on the radio the other day and was so refreshed by the power
and
quality of it that I have to get in touch. Such a sensitive but intelligent,
well tackled
piece, so interestingly done and with performances that sounded so
real and genuine in
a way that I don't
always feel they are on the radio.”
“Brilliant characterisation and suspense.”
“I particularly like its attack and intensity.”
