Trouble's brewing...

The future of the family business puts Maurice and Eddie at loggerheads

- RICHARD MCCLURE, NICK CANNON, HANNAH DAVIES, STEVEN PERKINS, CAREN CLARK.

THE A WORD

Tuesday, 9pm BBC1 Drama All six eps are available on BBC iPlayer now

There are many complicated relationships at the heart of The A Word, but the one between Maurice and Eddie might be the most volatile.

Different in almost every way, the father and son rarely see eye to eye on anything – so when Eddie tells his dad this week that he’s had a lucrative offer to sell the family brewery, he doesn’t get the congratulations he was hoping for…

Struggling to communicate