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Created by Ben Court and Caroline Ip.
Starring Peter Firth, Peter McDonald, Leila Mimmack, Aidan Gillen, Sophie Okenedo, Lesley Manville, Max Fowler, Tom Fisher and Sam Spruell.
SYNOPSIS:
The BBC’s recent five-part thriller
Mayday, shown on consecutive nights over one week last month, comes out on DVD today complete with standard extra features including a ‘making-of’, cast filmographies and a photo gallery.
Set in a small countryside community during their traditional May Day celebrations, local popular girl Hattie Sutton (Leila Mimmack) disappears on her way to take part in the parade as the May Queen. Over the next few hours and days, as the search for the teenager widens and the likely outcome grows grimmer, the town is torn apart by suspicion and a lack of trust as neighbours and family turn on one another and old resentments simmer and bubble over. We see how a devastating turn of events can affect a close-knit community so drastically: trophy wife Gail (Lesley