Best: His Mother's Son
Best – His Mother’s Son (BBC Two) was a gloomy drama about Ann Best, mother of George, who was strictly teetotal until her mid-40s, when she had her first sip of sherry to celebrate her son’s footballing success. Ten years later, she was dead from alcoholism-related heart disease. The recreation of late-Sixties Belfast was accurate and, thank goodness, intelligently subdued: no comedy Ulster accents and no point-scoring subplot about the Troubles.
Top Cast

Lorcan Cranitch
as Dickie Best
Dickie Best

Luke de Woolfson
as Dave Sadler
Dave Sadler

Laurence Doherty
as Journalist
Journalist
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