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Nick Walker - Life Coach

4 Extra Debut. Is life coach Derby up to the job of a lifetime? Real-time drama recorded on location with Nicola Walker and Stephen Tompkinson.

It takes Derby Anderson forty-three minutes and fifty-nine seconds to get from her car to the hotel room where the Secretary General of the United Nations is waiting for a life-coaching session. And Derby needs to get her own life sorted out in those forty-three minutes or she won't be of any help to anyone.

We hear a real-time journey where we weave in and around Derby and the security aide, Jack, who accompanies her, and whose lives we get to know intimately as they get closer to the door of the hotel suite.

LIFECOACH is a play in JOHN DRYDEN's occasional series, Forty-Three Fifty-Nine, which follows one person's perspective in what plays out as one continuous take. It was recorded on location in Broadcasting House, Portland Place and an underground car park. The cast also features Patrice Naiambana as The Secretary General and Paul Panting.

Writer and director Nick Walker has two published novels on bookshelves worldwide, has written and performed stories, plays and comedy for 大象传媒 Radio 4 and toured internationally with some of the nation's finest experimental theatre companies.

Written By Nick Walker
Directed and Produced by Karen Rose
A Sweet Talk Production for 大象传媒 Radio 4.

45 minutes

Last on

Wed 17 Dec 2014 04:15

Credits

Role Contributor
Derby Nicola Walker
Jack Stephen Tompkinson
Secretary General Patrice Naiambana
Other Parts Paul Panting
Writer Nick Walker
Producer Karen Rose
Director Karen Rose

Broadcasts

  • Mon 26 Apr 2010 14:15
  • Thu 7 Feb 2013 14:15
  • Tue 16 Dec 2014 11:15
  • Wed 17 Dec 2014 04:15

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