First look at Rebecca Hall in new BBC drama The Listeners alongside The Crown, Corrie and Peaky Blinders stars
THE BBC have given a first look at Rebecca Hall in their brand new drama The Listeners.
Bosses previously revealed the show will kick off on November 19th and now they’ve dropped a trailer.
It gives a flavour of what fans can expect as Rebecca’s character Claire, a school teacher, begins to hear a low humming in her ears.
Nobody else can hear the noise, which starts becoming disruptive to her professional and private life.
The Beeb tease: “This seemingly innocuous noise gradually upsets the balance of her life, increasing tension between herself and her husband, Paul, and daughter, Ashley – and despite multiple doctors, no obvious source or medical cause can be found.
“When a student of hers, Kyle, claims he can also hear the sound, the two strike up an unlikely and intimate friendship.”
The series – which was filmed in Greater Manchester – also stars The Crown‘s Prasanna Puwanarajah and Coronation Street‘s Karen Henthorn.
Amr Waked, Gayle Rankin, Mia Tharia, Ollie West, Franc Ashman, Samuel Edward Cook and Ian Mercer complete the lineup.
Meanwhile, The Listeners isn’t the only new drama launching on the BBC this month.
The broadcaster previously unveiled Moonflower Murders – a new gripping drama starring The Crown’s Lesley Manville and Tim McMullan.
The sequel to Magpie Murders will kick off on Saturday, November 16th on BBC One and iPlayer.
Meanwhile, on Friday November 22nd the highly anticipated launch of Return to Paradise air. The new Australian series is a spin-off to the smash hit Death in Paradise and set in the idyllic beachside hamlet of Dolphin Cove.
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