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📊 Series Specifications
Network BBC Four
Episode Runtime ~ min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 6
Original Language EN
CripTales (2020)
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Returning Series Series Status:
Currently airing weekly on international broadcast networks.
Synopsis
A life-changing moment is captured in six powerful, dramatic monologues. Written, directed and performed by disabled people and curated by Mat Fraser.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
6 Episodes E1 Audition
Mat sits in the waiting room before an audition, dreading how it will turn out. Contemplating the past, he unlocks the reasons for his fears, before finding the way to triumph. Or does he?
E2 The Real Deal
Meg tries to catch sight of a man she thinks is a benefits cheat. She is compiling details about him in order to shop him for fraud. But, unexpectedly, he forges a friendship with her.
E3 Thunderbox
It's 1968. wheelchair user Sue is in the toilet at a pop festival. A whirlwind romance has left her pregnant and abortion has just been legalised. What should she do now?
E4 Hamish
Hamish, equipped with a new, self-operated wheelchair, heads for the woods to find sexual pleasure. But he hasn’t counted on such rough terrain.
E5 Paper Knickers
Jackie is in hospital, facing a decision about whether to undergo an amputation. Will she have a chance of pursuing her romance with only one leg?
E6 The Shed
A children’s writer finds herself falling in love with Keira, her next-door neighbour. But Ellie, her carer, does not approve of the relationship.