‘IT'S EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF'
TV Times|June 05, 2021
Sean Bean and Stephen Graham on how their prison thriller aims to shine new light on life behind bars…
CAREN CLARK
‘IT'S EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF'

TIME

NEW SUNDAY / BBC1 / 9PM / EP 1 of 3 / DRAMA

Sean Bean and Stephen Graham never shy away from demanding roles, and this week sees them take on two of their most challenging yet as they reunite with award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern for BBC1’s hard-hitting new prison drama, Time.

The acclaimed actors, who previously teamed up in a 2012 episode of Jimmy’s anthology series Accused, and starred in his thought-provoking dramas Broken (Sean) and The Street (Stephen), head the exceptional cast of this three-parter, which explores the realities of living and working in a British jail.

Sean plays reserved teacher Mark Cobden, who is starting a four-year sentence in (fictional) Craigmore Prison for accidentally killing a man. Haunted by what he has done, his ordeal is made worse when he finds himself incarcerated alongside a range of antagonistic and disturbed fellow inmates.

Meanwhile, Stephen is diligent prison officer Eric McNally, who is at the mercy of Craigmore’s most ruthless prisoners when they try to use a family secret against him.

Here, Sean, 62, and Stephen, 47, tell us more…

How would you describe Time?

SEAN It’s a simply told story about lots of different facets of being imprisoned and guilt, suffering and inequality. It tells you what it’s like for just a regular guy to be jailed and the nightmare that is. You’ve got a cauldron of emotions and violence, and it’s every man for himself.

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