Best: His Mother's Son 2009

Best – His Mother’s Son (BBC Two) was a gloomy drama about Ann Best, mother of George, who was strictly teetotal until her mid-40s, when she had her first sip of sherry to celebrate her son’s footballing success. Ten years later, she was dead from alcoholism-related heart disease. The recreation of late-Sixties Belfast was accurate and, thank goodness, intelligently subdued: no comedy Ulster accents and no point-scoring subplot about the Troubles.

Cast:

Lorcan Cranitch
Dickie Best 

Luke de Woolfson
Dave Sadler 

Laurence Doherty
Journalist 

Laura Donnelly
Barbara Best 

Richard Dormer
Ad Director 

Michelle Fairley
Ann Best