Beyond Black: Voices From the Other Side

Dramatisation of Hilary Mantel's blackly comic novel about a professional medium with a troubled past. Alison Hart is a professional medium, an awkward, obese, disorganised woman, but with a gift for empathy and a good platform technique. To try and create some order in her messy existence she has taken on an assistant, the highly efficient but essentially heartless Colette, who, although she is a regular witness to Alison's gift, is nevertheless a profoundly sceptical companion. With Alison Steadman, Rosie Cavaliero, Bill Wallis.