Richard Eyre

Jennifer Saunders stars in this Yorkshire-set drama, an adaptation of the Alan Bennett play. The threatened closure of a geriatric ward in a small Yorkshire hospital stirs an uprising from the local community, who invite a news crew to film preparations for a concert in honour of the hospital’s most distinguished nurse.

Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci and Fionn Whitehead star in this morally complex legal drama about a judge forced to determine a child’s fate.

In an intriguing departure from her usual, the brilliant Judi Dench plays Barbara - a bitter, creepy and iron-fisted teacher