Overview
- The six-part drama debuts Saturday 3 January at 9:30pm on BBC One.
- Josh Finan plays Dan, a philosopher teaching in a men’s prison who grapples with a family history of incarceration and a mounting fear he belongs inside.
- Writer Dennis Kelly renames the protagonist, expands the father’s role and merges multiple prisons and people, while lifting authentic classroom dialogue from Andy West’s memoir.
- Creators reject conventional violent prison tropes in favor of a quieter, often humorous portrait of routine, moral complexity and the intellectual refuge of philosophy classes.
- West serves as a consultant and continues to teach inside UK prisons, with coverage situating the series against documented overcrowding, underfunding and understaffing.