Share Lesley has played quite a few posh parts recently and Princess Margaret is just the latest, the insider said.
They added: Although The Crown is a high-calibre production from Netflix, Sherwood is also one of the most anticipated dramas of the year.
Reunited: The show will see the Academy Award nominee acting alongside David Morrissey, 57 (pictured in 1997), for the second time since they both starred in BBC2 s Holding On in 1997
New series Sherwood is set in an 80s Nottinghamshire community who are still dealing with the after-effects of the miners strike.
Sherwood sees two shocking murders hit an already broken community - leading to one of the largest manhunts known to British history.
James Graham (Ian West/PA)
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Playwright and dramatist James Graham will return to his roots for a six-part crime thriller set in Nottinghamshire.
Titled Sherwood, the BBC One series will be set in the post-industrial mining village in which he grew up and draw on his childhood experiences.
It will see two “shocking and unexpected murders” shatter an already fractured community leading to “one of the largest manhunts in British history”.
New BBC crime drama Sherwood to be filmed in Nottinghamshire
Tragic murders threaten to inflame historic divisions sparked during the miners strike
James Graham pictured at the Theatre Royal in Nottingham (Image: Mark Fear)
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