Remembering Maude

Jason Watkins and wife Clara on losing their daughter to sepsis

- HANNAH DAVIES, REBECCA FLETCHER, IAN MACEWAN

NEW FACTUAL

Jason & Clara: In Memory of Maudie Thursday, 9pm, ITV1

The last decade has seen the television career of actor Jason Watkins really take off, with critically acclaimed roles in series including The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies, The Crown and The Catch.

Off-screen, however, the family life he shares with his wife Clara Francis was torn apart on New Year’s Day in 2011 when their two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Maude, died suddenly from sepsis.

Now, in a powerful and moving documentary, the couple allow cameras to follow their personal journey, as they move out of the flat where Maude was born and died, and tell their harrowing story for the first time.