蜜芽传媒

Set in the near future, after months of continuous rain all coastal areas of the UK are flooded. Bella and Jude are marooned on their farm in Kent with dwindling supplies, made all too clear by the arrival of a stranger who 'floats' in.

Written by Simon Armitage, this radio drama was inspired by Derek Jarman and provides the soundtrack to a new film by Richard Heslop.

Shortly before his death in 1994, Jarman was considering making a film based on Theodore Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa which depicts a group of desperate men, abandoned on a raft at sea. He wrote about it in his notebook, but the film was never made.

The Raft of the Medusa broadcasts on 18 April 2015 at 14:30.