BBC Plans Landmark Drama Series About Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Arbitrary Detention In Iran
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe‘s six-year-long ordeal at the hands of Iranian authorities gripped Britain — and now her story is to be told in a major BBC factual drama series.
Deadline can reveal that the British broadcaster is planning to adapt Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s upcoming book, A Yard of Sky: A Story of Love, Resistance and Hope, which she co-wrote with her husband Richard Ratcliffe, who campaigned tirelessly for her release from prison.
The four-part drama will chronicle Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s experience, from the day the charity worker was arrested in Tehran in April 2016 on spying charges, to her release in March 2022.
It will also portray Ratcliffe’s fight to free his wife, including him staging a hunger strike outside Britain’s Foreign Office.
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