Clare Shaw Yusra and me 15 July 2022
Polly Thomas is widely recognised as one of the UK’s leading audio producer-directors. Her award-winning work has explored the potential of the medium, including location-based recording, international co-production, community activism and simultaneous live relay. She works in live and broadcast performance as writer, producer and director, most prominently with Thomas Carter Projects, an international media and performance company which she co-founded with Gary Carter.

COMING UP

HE GAVE ME A TAKEAWAY
BBC RADIO 4 / BROADCAST 22 APRIL 2025, 1415
— produced by Polly Thomas

“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.”
Muriel Rukeyser

Inspired by recent sensationalist headlines and political rows about grooming gangs, seasoned dramatist Sarah Daniels looks at what is really going on for the young women in question. Dry humour laces through this powerful, uplifting drama about female solidarity and refusal to be silenced. Rooted in conversations with professionals working in the field, the drama asks how do survivors restart their lives, put on hold during the abuse?

Sunny is living on the streets, self medicating with drink and dugs, after surviving a grooming gang. When Rose offers her a free place to stay in the hotel where she works, Sunny meets Eve, a fellow survivor who is determined to get back custody of her son, and Alia, a professional support worker, whose own life has been marred by male violence. Rose, the woman who brought them all together, has her reasons for reaching out to help other women when society abandons them to fend for themselves. How can these four women help each other?

Written by Sarah Daniels / performed by Ashley McGuire, Shobna Gulati, Lucy Speed, Milly Blue, Harry Myers and Harley Viveash music director Harry Knights/ produced by Polly Thomas / sound design by Alisdair McGregor / executive producer Chantal Herbert / illustration by YanKi Darling

— a Thomas Carter Projects Production for BBC Radio 4

RED GOLD
BBC RADIO 4 / BROADCAST 29 JULY, 1415
— produced by Polly Thomas

New drama inspired by the inquiry into the infected blood scandal, as long awaited compensation payments are finally being made by Anita Sullivan.

Produced by Polly Thomas / production manager Annie Keates Thorpe / executive producer Joby Waldman / sound design Jon Nicholls

— a Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 4

BLEAK HOUSE
AUDIBLE / RELEASE 26 SEPTEMBER 2024
— directed by Polly Thomas and Jo Tyabji

Charles Dickens’ classic revisited. London. A city drowning in fog. A man with no name dies above a strange junkshop. Threads of mist and intrigue weave around a court case with no resolution, linking great country houses with the lowest slums in the city, mingling the high-born with a boy who sweeps the filthy streets (Lenny Rush), enshrouding devious plots and sudden murder, bringing together two extraordinary women – Lady Dedlock (Thandiwe Newton) and Esther Summerson (Ambika Mod) – who apparently have nothing whatsoever in common, yet find themselves inextricably linked.

The last of Audible’s trilogy of Dickens dramatisations concludes with a dramatic and atmospheric finale. Dramatised by Marty Ross, executive produced by Sam Mendes, original score by Dan Gillespie-Sells and sound design by Joe Richardson. Cast inlcudes Thandiwe Newton, Ambika Mod, Mackenzie Crook, Mark Strong, Lenny Rush, Mark Gatiss, Adeel Akhtar, Miriam Margolyes, Sophie Stone, Philip Glenister, Alex Austin, Sule Rimi, Jonathan Slinger, Saffron Coomber, Jonathan Case, Mat Fraser and more.

For full credits and to pre order, go to www.audible.co.uk