Shifting Sands

Morven Christie plays a conflicted family liaison officer in coastal crime drama The Bay.

‘Leave your home life at home,’ is the advice police officer DS Lisa Armstrong, played by Morven Christie, gives to a rookie early on in new ITV crime drama The Bay.

And as the story unfolds, it becomes clear that it’s advice Lisa would do well to follow herself. Set in the Lancashire coastal

town of Morecambe, the backdrop to the series is the notoriously dangerous Morecambe Bay, where a group of Chinese cockle pickers lost their lives in 2004 when they were cut off by the incoming tide. In the drama, the bay becomes

the site of another, fictional tragedy when a pair of 15-year-old twins go missing. Christie’s character is a family liaison officer (FLO) assigned to work with the traumatised parents, fisherman Sean Meredith (Jonas Armstrong) and pregnant mother Jess (Chanel Cresswell).

STUCK IN THE MIDDLE