BBC radio play exploring the history of HIV through the proxy of Jude, a 50 year old woman who has been living with the infection for 20 years. Jude "pauses" her medication to have a conversation with the virus about it's origins, how it spread throughout the planet, and for her more crucially how she came to be infected. The "virus" takes her from a journey involving a diseased monkey at the turn of the 20th century, through squalor in Africa, the hedonistic attitudes to drugs and sex of the 60s and 70s, and then to Jude's care free student and early adulthood days in Edinburgh. The role of antiretroviral drugs was well described, with Jude able to put the virus "back in his box" at the end, and then capable of proceeding once again with a broadly normal life. Well done, and ingeniously conceived by playwright Anita Sullivan who has been living well with HIV since 2000. The production also included speakers from the Terence Higgins Trust who shared their own personal stories. Cast included David Haig, Louise Brealey, David Carlyle, Don Gilet, Peter Bankole, Madeline Potter, Richard Laing, Joel MacCormack, and Martin Laird. Produced by Karen Rose. First broadcast July 2023.