First Look: BBC1's Apple Tree Yard

The BBC have launched the trailer for their upcoming four-part thriller Apple Tree Yard starring Emily Watson. The series, which launches on Sunday 22nd Jan on BBC One is billed as, "a provocative, audacious thriller that puts women’s lives at the heart of a gripping, insightful story about the values we live by and the choices that we make. A ‘what if’ situation that could happen to any one of us."



Dr. Yvonne Carmichael has a high flying career, a beautiful suburban home and the perfect family. Smart, successful and highly renowned within her field of genetics, Yvonne has a conventional and apparently contented life, married to husband Gary, complete with two grown up children.

After confidently presenting to a Commons Select Committee on her specialist subject, she is approached by a charismatic and mysterious stranger, who seems refreshingly interested in what she has to say – refreshingly interested in her. Suddenly, she finds herself alone and intimate with him in the deserted crypt beneath the House of Commons. It’s a completely out of character moment of madness. Despite Yvonne’s expectations that she will never see Mark Costley again, their encounter builds to a passionate and all-consuming affair.

However, despite Yvonne’s careful plans to keep her career and home life separate, fantasy and reality soon start to overlap; finally everything she values is put at risk when a life-changing act of violence ultimately leads to a Crown Court trial…

Emily Watson leads the series and she's joined by Joined by Ben Chaplin, Mark Bonnar, Adeel Akhtar, Lydia Leonard and Susan Lynch.

Apple Tree Yard Begins Sunday 22nd January at 9.00pm on BBC ONE