John Alan Roberts

Based on Sara Collins’ award-winning novel of the same name, which is set against the dazzling opulence of Georgian London, this powerful drama follows the eponymous Frannie’s journey from a Jamaican plantation to the grand Mayfair mansion of celebrated scientist George Benham and his exquisitely beautiful wife, Madame Marguerite Benham.

While working in a care home in Liverpool, health care assistant Sarah (Jodie Comer, The Last Duel) bonds with Tony (Stephen Graham, Boiling Point), a challenging patient with early-onset Alzheimer's disease.

Artist L.S. Lowry (Timothy Spall) pursues his artistic ambitions to the chagrin of his domineering mother (Vanessa Redgrave) in this British drama.