With outstanding reviews from both the public and press, the brilliant 5-part

drama ‘The Wrong Track’ is defi-nitely something to look forward to. The contemporary, mystery thriller was created by the talent-ed, Jaskeet Briah, Summer Sim-mons and Talia Bransbury.

The story follows the mysterious life of Louise Dyson who battles mental health issues unknown to others. With flashbacks of her childhood we learn about her friendship with her enigmatic friend Katherine who becomes more important as the plot devel-ops. When a suspicious death on Abington street arises, Louise no longer seems like the innocent police officer who everyone loves and knows. During the plot twist-ing drama her relationship with her husband unfolds. No one is safe around Louise.

The new Radio 4 drama is bound to give you Goosebumps, with thrilling plot twists and unex-pectant character development, ‘the wrong track’ is something to look out for in the world of radio dramas.

We spoke to one the creators of the drama, who talked me through the development of the series. As you can imagine, the creating must be the hardest concept of all. Both Summer and Jaskeet confirmed that it was in fact the scriptwriting that was the most tedious task. When I met them earlier this year they were in midst of post production. Talia was

responsible for a majority of most of the editing, she told me “It’s a really enjoyable experience, you get to playback all of the mis-takes, which is by far the funniest part, you really get to witness the actors bond and grow as the char-acters they were playing.”

When I asked Summer and Jas-keet what they detested most about the script writing, Summer

informed me that “ When you write a script, you invest time into the characters, you give them a personality and it’s hard to some-times match the actors up with your expectations. As well as this, the relationships the characters have are also hard are also hard to match up with the actors, some-times it’s too obvious that they’ve never met and the whole drama becomes awkward.”

Jaskeet, on the other hand thought of it in a different way, she said “You write a story and you lose yourself in it, it becomes another world in which you’ve created

and once you’ve done that it’s hard to then make it come to an end. It’s like you have to kill off something you’ve created and no matter how you chose to end it, it never feels good enough, it always feels half hearted. It’s easier to continue writing a script but once you have to end it, that’s when it get’s tough.”

Once they gave me a sneak peek of their production I was surprised with the quality of it, it was a modern take on a radio drama. I asked them what inspired them for the idea of a radio drama instead of a typical tv series and Talia’s feedback stood out most, she said “I’m not going to sugar coat it, but when you hear of a radio drama you instantly think old and boring, right? we wanted to sub-vert this idea and bring it back to life, we wanted to utilise the idea of radio and introduce our target audience into an old means of technology. We think ‘The Wrong Track’ successfully engages our target audience without the use of screens and gives radio drama’s a whole new name.”

" 'The Wrong Track' gives radio dramas a whole

new leash of

life."

"You write a

story and you

lose yourself in

it, it becomes

another world

in which you've created."

She's on the right track

8 FEBRUARY 2017

Our TV news reporter Summer Simmons meets with creators and writers of innovative radio drama the wrong track. Is it all it’s made out to be?

‘The Wrong Track’ airs on BBC Radio 4extra on 13/02/17

at 10pm. Don’t miss out!