Welcome to the production blog for Just A Phone Call Away

Producer/writer: Philip Matejtschuk
Director: Mike Trueman
Broadcast Assistant: Tom Payne
Research Assistant/Casting Manager: Natasha Cornwell

Just A Phone Call Away is a series of 15 minute episodes, which together make up a radio drama about a professional couple, Luke and Rosie, a food blogger and a lawyer respectively, who face trouble in their relationship when Luke is called away to work in London. Facing huge amounts of time apart, the drama is told through the only means of communication they now have; through phone-calls, e-mails, and letters. As the time apart takes its toll, Rosie’s blogging becomes more and more digressive, and she tells Luke of her desire to just move away to a stress-free life.

While emotions and longing are still high, Luke mysteriously cancels two meet-up dates in a row, and Rosie begins to doubt his loyalty and fidelity. When he fails to respond to her in any way after frantic calls and e-mails, Rosie gives up on him, and goes out for the evening with a friend to drown her sorrows.
The next morning, she awakes besides a man she’s never seen before, and calls her friend to find out just what happened. In the process of doing so,  she finds a voicemail from Luke, who explains that his lack of response was his viewing of an idyllic cottage in the country for them both to live in; he has put down a deposit, and wants to whisk her away. She calls him honestly to explain what she has done; he’s devastated and needs to think. The first episode ends with Rosie phoning her friend, who explains that it was just her brother staying at Rosie’s place, and that she hadn’t cheated at all…