First-look images have been released of Scots actor Martin Compston starring in his newest role on a South Ayrshire beach.
Compston plays a leading role in the BBC adaptation of Mayflies, due for release later this year.
Produced by BAFTA award-winning Synchronicity Films ( The Cry ), the two part drama has been adapted by Andrea Gibb ( Elizabeth Is Missing ) from Andrew O’Hagan’s acclaimed novel of the same name and directed by Peter Mackie Burns ( Rialto ).
The production, which co-stars Tony Curran and Ashley Jensen, will air on BBC One, BBC Scotland and BBC iPlayer.
We told last month how Line of Duty star Compston had been spotted in Ayr and Troon with his film crew.
Further names joining the cast include Tracy Ifeachor (Showtrial) as Iona, Tom Glynn-Carney (Dunkirk) as young Tully, Elaine C Smith (Two Doors Down) as Barbara and Colin McCredie (River City) as Scott.
The show is based in 1986 in a small Scottish town where Tully Dawson (Curran) and Jimmy (Compston) ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit.
With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the climax of their youth — a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicentre of everything that inspires them in working-class Britain.
There, against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded, 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.
Filming for the show took place around Ayrshire and Glasgow.
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