Adrian Shergold

UK comedy-drama charting the rise of a comedian (Maxine Peake, The Theory of Everything), set against a backdrop of Northern England working men's clubs in the '70s and '80s.

2007 screen adaptation of the Jane Austen novel, starring Sally Hawkins and Rupert Penry-Jones. Anne falls in love with handsome but penniless young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen, but is persuaded to end their romance. When they meet years later under very different circumstances, will the pair have a second chance?