Catherine Cookson's The Secret

Feature-length dramatisation of the writer's only thriller, set in 19th-century Tyneside. Colin Buchanan stars as successful businessman Freddie Musgrave, who has worked hard for 20 years to live down his misspent youth as runner to a gang of smugglers and is shocked when a face appears from long ago, threatening to reveal the details of his sordid past. With Clare Higgins and June Whitfield.