Holding on to hope

Paapa Essiedu and Siobhán Cullen play a married couple navigating multiple miscarriages

- WORDS: TESS LAMACRAFT, ELAINE PENN PHOTOS: BBC, ITV

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Babies

Monday & Tuesday, 9pm, BBC1 (box set, BBC iPlayer)

A devoted couple in their mid-30s face the heartbreak of pregnancy loss in this tender new drama penned by award-winning Him & Her and Mum writer Stefan Golaszewski.

The six-part series stars Paapa Essiedu (The Capture) and Irish actor Siobhán Cullen (Bodkin) as newly married Stephen and Lisa who are keen to start a family but who have suffered several miscarriages.