We are blessed in this country that, for a pittance, we have a national broadcaster who provides us with such nourishing fare in the form of BBC Drama while steadfastly eschewing the taking of political positions. It subtly uses the idiom like an expert pianist to pluck our cultural strings and to lead us into good pastures. My fear is that I am too unschooled and obtuse a recipient to understand the fullness and subtlety of the riches on offer, to, shall we say, hear every wavering melody in its full significance. I offer you the characters from THE RAPTURE so that you can assist me by explaining what ingenious semiotics are at work. I know that most of them will have gone over my head.
The feisty female psychologist in a wheelchair
Her young black female patient endowed with prophetic gifts and wrongly accused of a heinous crime
Her gentle and empathetic support worker, Rafiq, whose alibi is only believed when backed up by a white man
A spooky white Christian evangelist who says he is taking away climate alarm for poor children and replacing it with “hope.”
The fat, white, male psychiatrist who does the bidding of the evangelist and undermines the wheelchair-bound psychologist
A fossil fuel company pretending to like sustainables with a white male CEO
A feisty black female climate activist leader
A wronged journalist working on exposing the Fossil fuel guys
A corrupt MP enabling the Fossil fuel barons for the sake of “growth.”
A black policewoman feistily leading door to door inquiries
Pearls before swine in my case; all assistance appreciated….
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