June 01, 2023

2. Fettuccine Alfredo

18 minutes

New episodes released on Tuesday and Thursday. If you’re in the UK, listen first on BBC Sounds.

Connie starts chemotherapy and tries to ignore the advances of fellow patient, Paul, as she delves back to her past to try to figure out where it all went wrong with Emily’s husband Drew. She recalls them meeting at NYU in 1993, their whirlwind romance, her choosing Drew over Gabe, their marriage and bohemian life. It was all so happy and full of promise. Back in the present, Paul gives some good advice to Connie about letting people in. This leads her to faces the difficult moment of telling Claire she has cancer.

Credits

Connie / Emily - ROSAMUND PIKE

Drew - KYLE SOLLER

Claire - ISABELLA SERMON

Gabe - ALFRED ENOCH

Jade - JESSICA DARROW

Marni/Jenny - DANIELLA ISAACS

Dr Richter / Reporter - CHARLES HAGERTY

and HUGH LAURIE as PAUL

Additional voices:

PIPPA WINSLOW, NANCY CRANE, JOEY AKUBEZE, BARNEY WHITE, JILL WINTERNITZ

Written and Directed by Daniella Isaacs

Adapted from the original novel and Consulting Produced by Kim Hooper

Produced by Joshua Buckingham

Executive Produced by Faye Dorn, Clelia Mountford, Sharon Horgan, Kira Carstensen, Seicha Turnbull and Brenna Rae Eckerson

Executive Producer for eOne Jacqueline Sacerio

Co-Executive Produced by Carey Burch Nelson

Executive Producer for BBC Dylan Haskins

Assistant Commissioner for the BBC Lorraine Okuefuna

Additional Commissioning support for the BBC Natasha Johansson and Harry Robinson

Production Executive Gareth Coulam Evans

Production Manager Sarah Lawson

Casting Director Lauren Evans

Audio Production & Post-Production by SoundNode

Supervising Dialogue Recordist & Editor Daniel Jaramillo

Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Design & Mix: Martin Schulz

Music composed by Max Perryment

Additional Dialogue Recording: David Crane, Martin Jilek

Assistant Dialogue Recordists: Jack Cook, Giancarlo Granata

Additional Dialogue Editing: Marco Toca

Head of Production Rebecca Kerley

Production Accountant Lianna Meering

Finance Director Jackie Sidey

Legal and Business Affairs Mark Rogers at Media Wizards

Dialect Coach for Rosamund Pike - Carla Meyer

Read in Hannah Moorish

Artwork: Mirjami Qin

Artwork Photographer by Sibel Ameti

Additional thanks to: Emily Peska, Caitlin Stegemoller, Sam Woolf, Charly Clive, Ellie White, Ellen Robertson, Kate Phillips, Ed Davis, Ciaràn Owens, Jonathan Schey, Daniel Raggett and Charlotte Ritchie.

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