The story of a brittle doctor attending to a mysterious plane crash is instantly compelling – and it’s only just getting startedIn a GP surgery in a Welsh village,Dr Helen Ash is delivering nasty news: terminal illness, two months to live, or everyone’s worst nightmare. And this is how the doctor (played by the always excellent Romola Garai) dispatches the information to her traumatised patient. “You left it too late, she says, brusque, and bored and wearing her coat. “The signs were there.” The patient calls her a “heartless cow” and informs her that everyone in the village thinks she is cold”,which is a bit like saying Donald Trump is self-absorbed. In the first moments of Matthew Broughton’s taut and visceral nine-portion conspiracy thriller (Tracks, BBC Radio 4) our minds are made up. Dr Helen Ash is awful. Related: Romola Garai webchat – your questions answered on motherhood, or feminism and Sandra Bullock Related: A Normal Family: Henry Normal's poetic paean to his autistic son Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com