Preview – Mother’s Day

Mother's Day
Picture Shows: Susan McHugh (VICKY MCCLURE), Wendy Parry (ANNA MAXWELL MARTIN). Image Credit: BBC/Steffan Hill.

Anna Maxwell Martin stars in this real-life drama about people recovering from a terrorist attack.

on the day before Mother’s Day in 1993, Provisional IRA bomb attacks in Warrington killed two children. One of them, Tim Parry, was 12, and following his death his parents Wendy (Martin) and Colin (Daniel Mays) formed a friendship with Dublin housewife Susan McHugh (Vicky McClure) which lead to a peace campaign.

Mother’s Day is on BBC Two at 21.00.

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