HighTide, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Arts collaborated with two HighTide alumni writers, Vinay Patel (HighTide production True Brits; Doctor Who and BAFTA-nominated Murdered By My Father) and Tallulah Brown (BBC New Talent Hotlist; Sea Fret and writer of HighTide 2018 hit play Songlines) to collaborate on two 45 minute radio plays with thematic links, set in Suffolk.

Starring Anastasia Hille (The Missing) Joel MacCormack (UK Theatre Awards Best Actor, Ian Charleson nominee), Cassie Layton (Hole, Juliet at the Globe) and Simon Ludders (Dad’s Army: The Lost Episodes).

When Rita finds a fish-girl with a long, green and scaly tail in her bath, she immediately knows who’s to blame. Since her sister got ill, their dad’s been taking his old fishing boat out and trawling the North sea  looking for a church bell off the coast of Dunwich. He never meant to catch a mermaid but now he has, and he wants to sell her. As the fish-girl  struggles to survive on land, Rita’s sister begins to improve. Is the mermaid a beast or a thing of wonder? Rita can’t decide.

Keeping a mermaid secret isn’t easy and when dead animals start washing up on the beach, rumours flood the town. Rita has to help the fish-girl get back to the sea but at what cost?

A mystical play set by Sizewell’s Nuclear Power Plant about pulling up a mermaid from the North Sea.