White Open Spaces Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Season 1 Episode 5: Letting Yourself Go

  The final single-voice drama in the series, by Kara Miller. Janey knows her husband is having an affair and feels as though her life is falling apart. However, a chance encounter with a stranger in the village shop forces her to reassess her views. Broadcast earlier as part of Woman's Hour

• Season 1 Episode 4: Mountain Knows Me

  In the penultimate monologue of the series, Godfrey Jackman performs Mountain Knows Me, by Rommi Smith. An elderly man is enraged when diggers and workmen carve up the land where he was born and raised. He stages a sit-down protest on the hillside until they force him to move

• Season 1 Episode 3: Two Men in the Fog

  Monologue by Sonali Bhattacharyya, performed by Saikat Ahamed. Following the break-up of his marriage, Ashish goes to Shropshire for some peace and quiet away from the busy city. When he becomes lost in the November fog, a suspicious farmer puts him back on track and confounds all his expectations

• Season 1 Episode 2: The Management Reserve The Right

  By Richard Rai O'Neill. A new pub landlord finds himself caught between the prejudice of the locals and his own principles when a group of unfamiliar men visit his establishment. Broadcast earlier as part of Woman's Hour

• Season 1 Episode 1: Joy's Prayer

  Monologue by Ian Marchant, performed by Gillian Goodman. Vicar's favourite Joy, has her doubts about the new clergyman. Her suspicions are confirmed by his reaction to a village girl's decision to marry a man of whom he clearly disapproves. Broadcast earlier as part of Woman's Hour