Matt Bloom Find Me

Afternoon Play: Find Me Thu 2nd Oct 2003, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM by Matt Bloom 
In the year 2020 Mary has to travel to Sydney for her son's wedding and reluctantly decides to use the new mattertransportation machines that have overtaken aeroplanes as the main form of global transport. But an error occurs during the process -with terrifying consequences. Mary- Julia Watson Mary has her doubts about the new matter transportation machine. Will it get her to the wedding all in one piece? Wouldn't it be fantastic if you could hop inside a machine that would transport you to Australia in just five minutes? Well, yes - if you'd be happy to have your body cells destroyed and become a "perfect replication" of yourself at the other end. There's a distinctly Orwellian feel to Matt Bloom's drama,set just 17 years in the future, with governments assuming terrifying powers over the people of the world. So don't be fooled by the opening scene (which sounds like your average middle-class dinner party), nor by the regular scatterings of dark humour (including sarcastic Australian vicar presiding over a wedding where the groom has selected Metallica as best suited to voicing his feelings of love). This is a very dark and, ultimately, extremely bleak story of a mother's desperate attempt to get to her son's wedding, and of the price she has to pay when her "instant flight" runs into technical difficulties. Director:…..Jim Poyser Mary …. Julia Watson 
Andrew …. James Nickerson
 Beatrice …. Ann Rye
 Helen …. Emma Clarke
 The Mystery Man …. Stuart Richman
 The Duty Officer …. Neil Bell
 The Vicar …. Mark Chatterton Directed at BBC Manchester by Jim Poyser

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

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