Love Me Do

By Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran

As the world faces nuclear extinction two Americans trapped in London find themselves thrown together in the countdown to the Cuban missile crisis.

Cast:

Dorothy ..... Miranda Raison
Shack ..... Adam James
Richard ..... Stephen Hogan
Candice ..... Susie Riddell
Lindsay ..... Christine Kavanagh
Patrick ..... Stephen France
Marie ..... Francesca Spencer
Martin ..... Patrick Brennan
Jonathan ..... Don Gilet
Dentist ..... Joe Sims
General Power ..... Robert Blythe
Lady Compton ..... Christine Absalom
Chris Schenkel ..... Paul Stonehouse
Comic ..... Adam Nagatis
Other parts played by
Eleanor Crooks, Sarah Thom and
Will Howard.

Director: Sally Avens

First broadcast: 

Sat 13th Oct 2012

14:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM

The Cuban missile crisis:
For thirteen days in October the world teetered on the brink of nuclear destruction. Our Saturday Drama, by the writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, is a love story from the time when everyone thought the world was about to end.

When Dorothy arrives in England from Kansas to attend the friend of a wedding she finds herself the only American there apart from 'Shack' who works at the American Embassy. But she soon finds herself arguing with him over his flippant attitude to life and specifically Dorothy's marriage. But when she finds herself caught up in the crisis it is Shack who comes to her rescue and struggling to come to terms with the enormity of what's happening to the world they find themselves falling in love.

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