While investigating his brother’s mysterious death, expatriate mathematician Stephen Ezard (Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock) returns to England to find a hyper-paranoid surveillance society. But when Stephen stumbles into an international conspiracy, the surveillance turns on him.
Christopher Eccleston (Doctor Who) channels John Lennon in this recreation of Lennon's last turbulent years with the Beatles, co-starring Naoko Mori (Torchwood) as Yoko Ono, the woman blamed for breaking up the band, and Christopher Fairbank (Tess of the d'Urbervilles) as Freddie Lennon, John's absentee father.
In a gripping tale of intimacy, incarceration, and the misery of debt, Little Dorrit tells the story of the Dorrit family and the rich array of characters they encounter on their way from rags to riches and back again. Andrew Davies' adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic stars Matthew Macfadyen (Any Human Heart), Tom Courtenay, and Claire Foy (Upstairs Downstairs) as "Little" Amy Dorrit.