The wonderful Juliet Stevenson starred alongside David Haig and Dakota Blue Richards in Dustbin Baby which was shown on Sunday 21st on BBC1. If you missed it, you can catch up with it on BBC’s iPlayer and it’s well worth watching.

It was a powerful – albeit somewhat unrealistic at times – family drama based on the novel by best-selling author Jacqueline Wilson.

Dustbin Baby centred around the sad but ultimately uplifting story of teenager April – played by Dakota Blue Richards – who set out to discover where she came from. Along the way, she discovered that she’d been abandoned in a dustbin at birth. On her 14th birthday, April walked out on her foster mother Marion following a row, and set out to trace her past.

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