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The Pursuit of Love (BBC One) | iPlayer
Three Families (BBC One) | iPlayer
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Sunday nights do appear to be dear to BBC schedulers: it’s the jewel in the weekly crown, and it’s just a shame that, correspondingly, there has to be a gangrenous thorn in the hoof, which throughout lockdown has been Saturday evenings. But right after THAT
Line of Duty, to get the blistering, gleeful watch that is
The Pursuit of Love … that’s the sign of a planner pulling out the heavy stops on the organ.
It really is, in the language of Nancy Mitford, most awfully well done. Emily Mortimer’s adaptation manages to tell the bones of the story afresh, with spiffy modern renewals, while remaining immensely tender to the paradox at the heart of Linda, a tween-the-wars rosebud with everything in the world except education or any idea of what she, ever, wants, or stands for: truly writ large the Mitfordian creed of do anything as lo
BBC viewers left distraught by scenes in new drama Three Families liverpoolecho.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from liverpoolecho.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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No words in any drama could be more chilling than the comment by a nurse to a mum-to-be during an ultrasound scan: ‘There are a few wee things I’m not happy about.’
Those ‘few wee things’ were a death sentence for the unborn baby of first-time parents Hannah and Jonathan (Amy James-Kelly and Colin Morgan), in Three Families (BBC1).
This was a true-life story, set in Belfast, about six years ago. The pregnancy was 20 weeks along before the fatal foetal abnormality was spotted, a condition where the baby’s lungs had no room to grow. If she was not stillborn, she would suffocate within hours of birth a horrific prognosis.