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Poppy Shakespeare

Showing Monday March 31st, 2008 on Channel 4 at 9pm

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Based on the best-selling novel by Clare Allan, Poppy Shakespeare is a darkly comic one-off drama exploring life on the psychiatric ward of a North London day hospital from the slightly skewed perspective of its patients.

The drama stars Naomie Harris (White Teeth, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Miami Vice) as Poppy Shakespeare, a new and worryingly sane arrival to the psychiatric ward, who turns up dressed to the nines, insisting she is not mentally ill.

Bafta Award winner Anna Maxwell Martin (Becoming Jane, Bleak House) also stars as "N", a 13-year veteran of the hospital, and self-confessed "dribbler", who severed links with the outside world many years ago and has since made it her sole ambition never to be discharged.

An unlikely friendship blossoms between the pair when "N" is charged with looking after the new arrival. Poppy, desperate to escape the mental health system, persuades "N" to help her get out of the ward. "N" agrees, but the pair quickly find that Poppy is in a catch-22 situation; and proving she is sane is going to be harder than she thought.

Preview courtesy of Channel 4




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  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites October 8th, 2008 - 7:27pmgini mags said...

    anyone got a copy on dvd i can borrow or buy?

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites June 30th, 2008 - 11:34amGeminate said...

    I have it if you want it...let me know.

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites June 23rd, 2008 - 7:45pmAnna Davies said...

    Been searching everywhere for Poppy Shakespeare to buy on DVD, not been able to get the film out of my head since it aired in March on Ch4. Been thru' a lot of s**t myself so this film is particularly close to my heart. Where can I buy it or download it from???

  • Use www.gravatar.com to create an Avatar for your e-mail address and use it on many supported sites April 8th, 2008 - 11:43amLeanne said...

    absolutely amazin film wud definately buy it on dvd 10 out ov 10