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Ruby Lennox’s family is ostensibly ordinary. But behind the scenes, secrets, lies and inexplicable coincidences are waiting to be found. In Kate Atkinson’s beguiling Behind The Scenes At The Museum, the effervescent Ruby pulls at threads at to unravel a tragi-comic story of family love, loss and heartbreak that spans a century. Starring Rosie Cavaliero, Kate O'Flynn and Samuel James. Behind the Scenes at the Museum won the Whitbread Best Book of the Year in 1995, and is now dramatised by one of our very best audio writers, Katie Hims, for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4. This is part one of three episodes. In 1951 Ruby Lennox is grudgingly conceived to the chimes of midnight; chimes from the clock on the mantlepiece which once belonged to her great grandmother, Alice. The Lennox live above the shop in York, a city so steeped in history that real-life ghosts linger amongst the boxes of Trill and cat litter. We are flung back to 1919, and meet Ruby’s grandmother Nell, a young woman, falling in love at the brink of war. CAST Ruby ..... Rosie Cavaliero Bunty ..... Kate O’Flynn George ..... Samuel James Nell ..... Jessica Turner Jack ..... Nuhazet Diaz Cano Frank .....Paul Adeyefa Albert ..... Ian Dunnett Jnr Young Nell ..... Shreya Lallu Young Lilian .... Andi Bickers Alice/Babs ..... Ruth Everett Jean-Paul ..... Charlie Anson Young Patricia ..... Paige Brearley Young Gillian ..... Olive Connolly Dramatist ..... Katie Hims Director ..... Anne Isger Production Co-ordinators ..... Jenny Mendez and Maggie Olgiati Sound ..... Keith Graham, Ali Craig, Andy Garratt A ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Studios Audio Production for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 KATIE HIMS Katie has written extensively in audio drama including multiple leading adaptations for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4: Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'ubervilles, George Eliot's Middlemarch, Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls and The Martin Beck Killings by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo. Katie was also lead writer on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Front and other radio work includes Black Eyed Girls (winner of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Audio Drama Award for Best Original Drama), Lost Property (winner of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Audio Drama Award for Best Original Drama), The Gunshot Wedding (winner of The Writer’s Guild Best Original Radio Drama) and The Earthquake Girl (winner of the Richard Imison Award). In TV Katie is developing an original grounded sci-fi drama with Hooley Productions, and has episodic experience on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s long running series Casualty. In theatre, Katie is currently on attachment at the National Theatre. Her recent stage work includes a contemporary retelling of Kafka's The Trial which ran at The Unicorn Theatre in 2023 and received 4 and 5 star reviews.