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Best Interests review: ‘heart-shattering’ drama on BBC One

“It was with a huge sense of trepidation” that I tuned into BBC One’s new four-part drama “Best Interests”, said Nick Hilton in The Independent. Written by Jack Thorne, it tells the harrowing story of a couple who must decide whether doctors should keep treating their desperately unwell daughter.

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Is Best Interests based on a true story and where is it filmed?

We share where Best Interests was filmed and reveal whether the BBC drama is based on true story.

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Christopher Eccleston to play Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at Old Vic

The play will return to the theatre for the seventh year.

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The week in theatre: Romeo and Juliet; When Winston Went to War With the Wireless; Groundhog Day – review

Danger stalks the radiant lovers in Rebecca Frecknall’s tumultuous, twilit Romeo and Juliet; a 1920s battle for the soul of BBC radio couldn’t be more timely; and Groundhog Day, once more with feeling

The Guardian - UK

The Week on Stage: From Romeo and Juliet to When Winston Went to War with the Wireless

A guide to the week’s theatre

The Independent UK

When Winston Went to War With the Wireless review – radio is the star of BBC crisis drama

Jack Thorne’s dramatisation of the power play between the UK government and the broadcaster in 1920s Britain is pacy and evocative

The Guardian - UK

When Winston Went to War With the Wireless at the Donmar Warehouse review: history repeats itself

The feud between Conservative politicians and our national broadcaster has been ongoing for longer than you think

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Is Best Interests based on a true story and what is the thought-provoking BBC drama about?

Best Interests tells a profound tale that will resonate with many viewers and some might be wondering if it's based on one specific case

Woman & Home

Best Interests review – Sharon Horgan is magnificently ferocious as a mum in agony

Horgan and Michael Sheen star in this masterly and profoundly moving series about the terrible reality of having a disabled child in a world where you must fight constantly for them to live

The Guardian - UK

Best Interests review: Unflinching Sharon Horgan drama imagines parents’ ultimate nightmare

Michael Sheen co-stars in Jack Thorne’s BBC One series about a couple driven apart over whether to stop treatment for their daughter

The Independent UK

How many episodes of BBC Best Interests there are and how to watch

Michael Sheen joins Sharon Horgan in the new thought-provoking drama Best Interests from His Dark Materials writer Jack Thorne - but when does it start and how long is it on for? Here's what you need to know

Wales Online

BBC Best Interests full cast list: Who stars alongside Michael Sheen in the drama?

Welsh legend Michael Sheen joins Sharon Horgan, Conversation with Friends star Alison Oliver, Noma Dumezweni, Des McAlee, Mat Fraser, Pippa Haywood and many more

Wales Online

Is Best Interests based on a real story? Everything you need to know...

Best Interests tells the story of a couple who face every parent's worst nightmare, but is it real?

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TV tonight: Our highlights for Monday, June 12

Best Interests is just one of the gems on TV tonight.

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‘The signs are too stark to ignore’: seven reasons the NHS is in crisis

As the NHS approaches its 75th anniversary, writers close to it reflect on the numbers behind its problems, and what it will take to heal the wounds

The Guardian - UK

‘A mum shouldn’t have to go to her child’s funeral’: Sharon Horgan and Michael Sheen on making moving TV

The stars’s beautiful, haunting show follows a mother who sues the NHS to stop her child from dying. They open up about parental terror, inequality and dad dancing

The Guardian - UK

We interrupt this broadcaster: why did Winston Churchill try to seize the BBC?

In 1926, with the General Strike looming and the right warning of a Bolshevik revolution, the BBC found itself in a dreadful dilemma. Writer Jack Thorne on why he turned this into ‘a love letter to people in authority’

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Best Interests: plot, cast, and everything we know about Jack Thorne's new drama

Best Interests tells the story of a family being driven apart by a choice no parent would ever want to make.

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The Motive and the Cue review: a ‘heartfelt plea’ for the ‘power of theatre’

“There’s been no shortage of stage portrayals of real life VIPs in the past couple of years,” said Clive Davis in The Times. Jack Thorne’s “thoughtful, often wickedly droll” new play, about the relationship between Richard Burton and John Gielgud during rehearsals for a 1964 production of Hamlet on Broadway,…

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: The Motive and the Cue; A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction; Jules et Jim; Supernova – review

Sam Mendes reignites Gielgud and Burton’s Broadway Hamlet; a climate crisis play is powered by bikes (and eco-shaming); Timberlake Wertenbaker has fun with Jules et Jim; and Rhiannon Neads hits escape velocity

Evening Standard

Johnny Flynn: ‘rehearsal spaces can turn toxic’

The star of hot new Sam Mendes play The Motive and the Cue talks fame, fraught rehearsals and theatre’s big culture shift. By Alexandra Jones

The Independent UK

The Motive and the Cue review: Burton/Gielgud luvvie-off will give you goosebumps

Mark Gatiss is superb as Sir John Gielgud in Jack Thorne’s affecting play about Hamlet rehearsals with Richard Burton

The Guardian - UK

The Motive and the Cue review – Gielgud and Burton battle it out

Mark Gatiss and Johnny Flynn star in Jack Thorne’s play about the prickly pair’s 1960s Broadway production of Hamlet

Evening Standard

The Motive and the Cue, National Theatre review: Sam Mendes’s elegant production is a love letter to theatre

In this look at Richard Burton and Sir John Gielgud’s staging of Hamlet on Broadway, the play is not the thing

Evening Standard

Jack Thorne on his new play about Richard Burton and John Gielgud’s Hamlet: “Rehearsals can be brutal”

Sam Mendes was inspired to commission The Motive and the Cue after finding a book on the tumultous 1964 staging of Hamlet on Broadway - now it’s at the National Theatre

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