BBC Radio 4, March 12, 2020 and BBC Sounds (Podcast episodes 3 and 4)

Caroline is perturbed when she sees the apparently impossible…

The tension mounts in this middle episode of Lucy Catherine’s body transplant thriller, as Jill Halfpenny’s Caroline becomes convinced that she saw her original body walking round (with someone else’s head attached). Did she really catch sight of her own rose tattoo on the woman’s back?

That upset is only compounding the problems she feels with the ‘voice’ that has been telling her to behave in ways that don’t feel right – and the weird limbo into which she occasionally drops, where a younger woman is advising her to be careful of ‘him’ and what ‘he’ might do.

She’s also approached by Mel, one of the support group she’s visited, who turns out to have her own agenda. And it’s no real surprise when Mel reveals information that makes Caroline doubt everything once again.

Verdict: There’s a certain predictability about elements of this episode, but every so often Catherine zigs where you expect her to zag in the script, and at present it’s hard to guess where things will end up. 8/10

Paul Simpson