BBC's new drama Mayflies starring Line of Duty's Martin Compston starts this week.
Mayflies is the story of a group of friends who grow up together in Ayrshire, about their love of music and politics in 1986, and what happens to them thirty years later.
In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, Jimmy (Martin Compston) and Tully Dawson (Tony Curran) ignite a friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over, they spend a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicentre of everything that inspires them in working-class Britain.
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There a vow is made: to go at life differently. Thirty years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has the worst kind of news, and a request that will test their friendship, love, and loyalty to the limit.
Mayflies start date and time:
Mayflies is a two part series and will air over two nights. The first episode will air at 9pm on BBC One on Wednesday, December 28, while the second will air one day after, at 9pm on Thursday, December 29.
Mayflies cast list:
- Martin Compston – Jimmy
- Tony Curran – Tully
- Ashley Jensen – Anna
- Tracy Ifeachor – Iona
- Rian Gordon – Young Jimmy
- Tom Glynn-Carney – Young Tully
- Paul Gorman – Young Hogg
- Mitchell Robertson – Young Tibbs
- Elaine C. Smith – Barbara
- Shauna Macdonald – Fiona
- Cal MacAninch – Tibbs
- Colin McCredie – Scott
- Matt Littleson – Young Limbo
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