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RUTH WILSON and DAME EMMA THOMPSON on starring in a complex mystery involving a missing child and long-buried lies

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DOWN CEMETERY ROAD

NEW FROM WEDNESDAY 29 OCT, APPLE TV DRAMA (FIRST TWO EPISODES FROM WEDNESDAY 29 OCT, THEN WEEKLY)

Acclaimed British actors Ruth Wilson and Dame Emma Thompson join forces to uncover a conspiracy on Oxford's streets in gritty new Apple TV thriller Down Cemetery Road.

Based on Slow Horses author Mick Herron's 2003 novel of the same name and adapted for screen by Slow Horses writer Morwenna Banks, the eight-episode story sees Golden Globe-winner Ruth (The Affair, His Dark Materials) play art restorer Sarah Trafford, whose uneventful life takes a dramatic turn when, without warning, her neighbour's house explodes.

Believing five-year-old Dinah Singleton (Ivy Quoi) has gone missing after the blast, Sarah hires sharp-tongued private investigator Zoë Boehm, played by Oscar-winning Emma (Howards End, Sense and Sensibility) to help her discover the truth.

But as the two women begin unravelling a web of lies including military mysteries and government cover-ups, they soon become targets themselves...

The much-anticipated series also features The Great's Adam Godley as Joe, Zoë's idealistic husband and fellow PI, and The Nevers star Tom Riley as Sarah's hedge-fund-manager husband Mark. The Outlaws' Darren Boyd plays 'C', a shadowy government figure, while Showtrial's Adeel Akhtar is his flustered right-hand man, Hamza Malik.

TV Times caught up with Emma, 66, and Ruth, 43, to get their take..

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