The Blackwater Mermaids written and directed by Scott Hurran

BBC Arts and Screen South

The Blackwater Mermaids is a mashup of estuary life and the underground garage music scene in this epic Essex-‘tail.’ Terry, an oyster fisherman in West Mersea, has been obsessed his whole adult life about the mermaid he once saw out in the water. Every year on that same day he ventures back out to see if he can find her. And then he does… 

Creatives: Sound Design - Chris Warner, Composition - Tom Foskett Barnes, Producer Jo Nolan, Executive Producer - Sue Bowerman 

Cast: Anne Odeke and Sam Swainsbury

LISTEN HERE: New Creatives Dramas - Series 4 - 5. Hotdogs and Hashtags & Blackwater Mermaids - BBC Sounds