A second showing for Tony Marchant's three-part drama, being screened on consecutive nights.
Starring Sue Johnston, Alun Armstrong

Johnston's portrayal of a woman coming to terms with a devastating illness made the serial one of the most acclaimed programmes of 1992. She won the Radio Times Award for Drama Performance of the Year, while the series was named Best Drama Serial of 1992 by the Royal Television Society and won a Prix Europa for television mini-series of the year. "I'd only recently left Brookside, and I was working in theatre worrying about how I was going to re-establish myself on TV," says Johnston. "As soon as the script for Goodbye Cruel World arrived I longed to get it. It's exactly the kind of part I like doing."

(Part 2 tomorrow at 10.00pm)
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