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Secrets and Lies: Scammer

Secrets and Lies: Scammer

Update: 2025-11-28
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Satinder Kaur Chohan's moving drama 'Scammer' about the ruthless world of scam call centres is part of BBC Radio 4 drama collection, Secrets and Lies.

Moving between a bustling scam call centre in Delhi, India and a house under the Heathrow flight path in British Asian suburbia, Scammer centres on the relationship between two women: Anju, an Indian scam call centre worker and Deesho, a lonely Indian elderly woman, unknowingly suffering the early stages of dementia. When Deesho mistakes Anju for her granddaughter Navi, an unexpected connection begins to form between them. But as pressure mounts on Anju to make more money, she is forced to make a difficult decision.

Scammer explores a surprising intergenerational connection in a disconnected modern world, in which secrets and lies are currency in deceitful global transactions.

DEESHO.....Shelley King
ANJU.....Payal Mistry
VASHU.....Gurjeet Singh
PAPPU.....Esh Alladi

Additional voices by members of the cast, Ben Hollands and Shemiza Rashid.

Written by Satinder Kaur Chohan
Directed by Nadia Molinari
Technical Production and Sound Design by Sharon Hughes
Production Co-ordinator Ben Hollands
Casting Manger Alex Curran
Additional Technical Production by Kelly Young, Elijah Waddington

A BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4

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Secrets and Lies: Scammer

Secrets and Lies: Scammer

BBC Radio 4