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Maxine Peake

Maxine Peake is an English actress, best known for her roles in the BBC drama series "Silk" and the Black Mirror episode "Metalhead". She has also appeared in numerous theatre productions and films. In addition to acting, Peake is also a playwright and screenwriter.

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Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit

Series Age rating: 10 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 8.2

Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed...

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Anne

Anne

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2022 IMDB Rating: 8.1

Anne Williams, from Formby, near Liverpool, was devastated by the loss of her son, 15-year-old Kevin, who was tragically killed at the FA Cup semi-final in 1989 between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest...

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Three Girls

Three Girls

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2017 IMDB Rating: 8.1

The story of three of the children who were victims in the 2012 grooming and sex trafficking case in Rochdale, for which nine men were convicted and sentenced. The drama explores how these girls were...

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Silk

Silk

Series Age rating: 14 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 8

Silk is a British television drama series produced by the BBC and first shown in 2011. Written by Peter Moffat, the series follows a set of barristers, and what they do to attain the rank of Queen's C...

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Messiah

Messiah

Series Age rating: 16 Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 7.9

Crime drama series following the investigations of DCI Red Metcalfe.

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Dinnerladies

Dinnerladies

Series Age rating: 12 Year: 1998 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Dinnerladies is a BBC sitcom written by and starring Victoria Wood that chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a canteen in the north of England. Bren tries to maintain a semblance of order in...

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The Theory of Everything

The Theory of Everything

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 7.7

The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jan...

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The Village

The Village

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 7.7

The Village tells the story of life in a Derbyshire village through the eyes of a central character, Bert Middleton.

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Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice

Series Age rating: 17 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Thriller by Peter Moffat about the challenges and politics of the criminal justice system seen through the eyes of the accused.

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Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle

Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2017 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Narrated by Maxine Peake, this feature documentary explores the failures and deception that have caused a chronic shortage of social housing in Britain.

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