Sharon Rooney

Based on real-life diaries, a teen in 1996 Lincolnshire sets out to reconnect with her friends after spending four months in a psychiatric hospital.

Gabe is an ordinary emergency call handler in Glasgow, but his world is turned upside down once he receives a desperate call from a woman who claims to know him. With Gabe under pressure to work out who she is, he makes a decision that threatens to have devastating consequences.

`Brief Encounters', starring Penelope Wilton, Sophie Rundle, Angela Griffin and Sharon Rooney, follows four women as they overcome personal struggles and find success when they take part in a new venture. Set in the early '80s, the period marks the era when Ann Summers party planning is first introduced to the UK market. Shy and retiring, young mother Steph embarks on a career as a party planner, which helps her grow in confidence and make new friendships. Alongside Steph, Nita, who has a wayward husband, Dawn, a woman who has been supporting her father and three brothers, and Pauline, a lonely housewife, all sign up to become Ann Summers saleswomen.

The true story of Edwardian British artist Louis Wain and his wife Emily, who encouraged him to paint playful and psychedelic pictures which transformed the public's perception of cats.