Happy Holidays
At LAX, a young British woman discovers she has overstayed her US visa by one day and is incarcerated with other 'illegals', with little chance of getting home for Christmas.
When Kate Marston turns up at LAX to fly home to London in time for the Christmas holidays, she is arrested by the Border control agency for having overstayed her visa by one day. She admits her mistake but finds herself incarcerated with hundreds of other 鈥榠llegals鈥� waiting to be processed by a system already groaning under the weight of an ICE dragnet designed to rid the US of aliens and undocumented migrants.
For Kate鈥檚 family back home the question is stark - with three days to go to Christmas what exactly do they have to do to get her back home/
Written by Viv Groskop
Cast:
Kate - Jane Slavin
Emily - Lizzy McInnerny
Barb - Greta Scacchi
Brian - David Menkin
US Border official - Paul Panting
Produced and directed by Eoin O'Callaghan
A Big Fish Radio production for 麻豆社 Radio 4
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- Thu 18 Dec 2025 14:15麻豆社 Radio 4
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