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An early scene shows Barnabus’s parents, Fiona (Naomi Petersen) and David arguing and rubbing up each other the wrong way when Peggy and Bert are staying with them in the caravan. Bert is full of increasingly unlikely stories, tedious for David who has heard them many times, but fresh for Fiona who as yet has not had her disbelief enacted. Peggy listens patiently.
Anne-Marie Duff plays the matriarch of the family over half a century. She has born three children with the youngest Laura (Emma Shipp) still at school. Her husband Alistair is a trade union shop steward and tells us that in 1965 half the working population are in a trade union. In 2017 this percentage had fallen by more than half to 23.3%. In the 1980s Margaret Thatcher has demolished trade union power with legislation against secondary picketing and the defeat of the miners’ strike in 1984/5.