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‘I love Australia ... but I don’t think I’ve ever been in such a racist society’ We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Ginny Dougary Normal text size Advertisement When writer Jimmy McGovern was growing up in his beloved Liverpool, the city where he and the remaining seven of his siblings still live, with nephews and nieces galore, it was a source of pride to his family and their neighbours that only one of the residents on their street had gone to prison. “It’s a working-class boast,” he laughs wryly. “You say this to a middl...

BBC News By Alice Evans image copyrightBBC/James Stack image captionSean Bean's character, Mark Cobden, has to learn fast to survive as a newbie prisoner at HMP Craigmore "A wake-up call to potential offenders." "An interesting insight." "Worrying if this is a realistic portrayal." Those are just some of the ways Time, the recent BBC prison drama, has been described by viewers. The show portrays the UK's jails as dangerous and under-resourced, where prisoners have to turn to violence to gain respect from others and staff are blackmailed into smuggling in weapons and drugs. Former prisoner Mik...

Tommy Hunter actor Brian McCardie has reflected on playing TV baddies in Line of Duty and Time.

Sean Bean plays the prisoner consumed by guilt while Stephen Graham is the officer faced with an impossible choice, but the Time cast is also filled with Line of Duty villains and Waterloo Road heroes

A desperate plea for redemption goes unheard