The Wire - The Number of the Dead

A new dramatic work written for Radio 3 by presenter, journalist and playwright Mark Lawson. Contains strong language. Timothy Freeman, newscaster and voice of the nation's major news network, is facing a crisis, seeing himself overlooked by younger colleagues. His teenage son Tom is holding up a bank at gunpoint and demands to speak to him live on air, broadcasting Timothy's failings as a father and a man to a million-strong audience who listen aghast.