TV star Vicky McClure is best known for hard-hitting dramas Line of Duty and Trigger Point but her next venture will take her a lot closer to home. The Wollaton-born actress will be teaming up with her 97-year-old grandad Ralph for a new ITV show.
In Vicky McClure: My Grandad’s War (the working title) she will explore her grandfather’s Royal Navy history. The pensioner was a World War II hero, who helped to invade France during the Normandy Landings - one of the most pivotal and dangerous operations in wartime Britain.
The BAFTA-winning actress will trace her grandad’s extraordinary story, talking in depth to him at home in Nottingham and then heading back to the Normandy shore to retrace his very personal journey. Vicky will also reunite her grandad with surviving friends from the war, understanding the incredible sacrifice the men made.
