TRAILER: NEW BBC DRAMA SHOWTRIAL BEGINS 31st OCTOBER

Filmed and set around Bristol, Showtrial explores how prejudice, politics and the media distort the legal process, in a timely legal drama full of dark humour.

Tracy Ifeachor, James Frain and Sharon D Clarke star alongside Sinéad Keenan, Celine Buckens, Kerr Logan and Lolita Chakrabarti.

When Talitha Campbell, the estranged daughter of a wealthy property developer, is charged with conspiring to murder fellow university student Hannah Ellis, the trial that follows places victim and accused - and their families - in the eye of a media storm.

Into that storm enters Cleo Roberts, the duty solicitor on the night of Talitha’s arrest. Refusing her father’s help, Talitha wants Cleo to lead her defence against a prosecution weaponising Talitha’s gender as well as her social privilege against her.

Showtrial begins Sunday 31st October on BBC One.