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Five Days - New BBC Drama
Mixed-Race family in gripping thriller.
Five Days, a new drama coming to BB1 will feature a mixed-race family and tracks five 24-hour periods following the abduction of young mother, Leanne.
The story begins one hot, summer day when Leanne (Christine Tremarco) is taking her two young children to visit her grandfather. She stops to buy flowers at a motorway lay-by but then inexplicably vanishes, leaving her two small children waiting for her in her car, lost and far from home.
They set off to find her, only to go missing themselves. Their ordeal is captured on CCTV cameras and, before long, the family's heart-stopping trauma is not only a complex police investigation, but also a major news story.
The action unfolds on days one, three, 28, 33 and 79 and as each episode unravels, it becomes clear that nobody is quite what they seem.
Not Leanne's grieving husband, Matthew (David Oyelowo), who finds himself under suspicion. Not the laconic detective, Barclay (Hugh Bonneville), or his cynical sergeant, Foster (Janet McTeer); not Leanne's parents, Barbara (Penelope Wilton) and John (Patrick Malahide); and not Sarah (Sarah Smart), a stranger who's drawn into both the investigation and the family.
David Oyelowo, who plays Leanne's distraught husband Matt, revealed that he had to dig deep into his own emotions to be able to portray the depth of his character's devastation.
'Matt's whole life is decimated by Leanne and the two children going missing and I suppose, through the five episodes, we see an ordinary man dealing with the pressures of not just the press plaguing him, because it's a high-profile story, but also the police and the suspicion that he's engendered not only by the fact that he's ex-Army, but also a little bit because he's black. He's an ordinary guy dealing with an extraordinary situation.'
Five Days is showing Tuesday 23 to Thursday 25 January from 9.00pm on BBC ONe. Click here to visit the BBC website and watch a preview of episode one:
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