Little Bird (ITV 2000 with Amanda Burton and Cal Macaninch)

UK / ITV Network / 1×110 minute episode / Broadcast Wednesday 1 November 2000 at 9.10pm

Writer: Stephen Butchard / Producer: Francis Hopkinson / Director: Aisling Walsh

Drama. Social workers Rachel Lewis and Tony O’Neill try to find a home for 4 year old Trudie, they choose a couple, Ellen and Michael Hall who lost their own child in a road accident but Rachel and Tony start to wonder if they have made the right decision.

Filmed in a slightly grainy style to give it a documentary type feel.

cast
AMANDA BURTON as Rachel Lewis
CAL MACANINCH as Tony O’Neill
NIAMH CUSACK as Ellen Hall
EWAN STEWART as Michael Hall
MARTIN REEVE as Simon Markham
POLLY HEMINGWAY as Jean Holland
EMMA CATHERWOOD as Sandra
JACK MARSDEN as Gary
LIAM BARR as Jonathan Hall Jr
STUART McGUGAN as Jonathan Hall Sr
CAROL HARVEY as Rita Hall
TOM BUTCHER as Alan
COLIN MEREDITH as Matthew

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