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Three Families is a compelling and thoughtful two-part drama which begins tonight
20:31, 10 MAY 2021
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With the weather looking gloomy, you may want to spend your evening hunkered down with a new drama.
Tuesday, 4th May 2021 at 4:17 pm
From the producers of harrowing real-life drama Three Girls comes a new BBC One drama focussing on the issue of strict abortion laws in Northern Ireland.
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Gwyneth Hughes (Doing Money) pens the compelling two-part series, and (as the title suggests) it follows three families whose lives are impacted by the Abortion Act of 1967, which legalised abortion in the UK but did not extend to Northern Ireland.
Based on real people, the characters include a mother and daughter whose lives are upended by an unwanted teenage pregnancy, and a married couple whose much-wanted first child will die of a fatal foetal abnormality.