Time (BBC)
Five out of five stars
There’s a heartbreaking moment in the prison drama Time when a young offender meets his birth mother for the first time.
She’s from Kenya and doesn’t speak English. He has a bad stammer, and can’t understand what she’s saying.
What makes it particularly moving is that writer Jimmy McGovern based this scene on a real incident. Only the language was changed.
It wasn’t the only moment that makes Time one of the most powerful dramas of the year.
This is McGovern’s third story based in prison. First it was a men’s prison, then a women’s prison, and now a
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