BBC Three has received its latest factual drama by the BBC Studios team, which was awarded a BAFTA. My Debt Killed Me Murdered by my FatherAnd Murdered for Being Different
Warehouse: Life and DeathAysha Rafaele, highly regarded BBC Studios Drama exec, stars Peaky Blinders’Aimee-Ffion Edwards,In My Skin’sPoppy Lee FriarLine of Duty’sCraig Parkinson with workers and a manager in a Welsh warehouse. This is Craig’s account of the exploration into working conditions in modern distribution centres.
The “customer-fixated”These centers are culturally rich “idle time”(Toilet stops and conversations) “pick”Or “aspirational”The rate of picks per hour (number of items taken per hour) is constantly monitored by 24-hour surveillance. This can lead you to disciplinary hearings. “off-boarding” (sacking). Megan (Edwards), desperate to keep her job, presses pregnant Alys(Friar). “pick rate”Alys and her child are now at serious risk.
As with previous projects from Rafaele’s team, the 60-minute single will attempt to pick apart modern society’s darker realities. She was most recently in The Left BehindEdwards starred in a film about far-right activism in Wales. It was directed by Warehouse Life Director Joseph Bullman. Rafaele will soon leave BBC Studios to join Bodyguardexec Elizabeth Kilgarriff’s indie Firebird Pictures.
“This factual-based drama will no doubt raise some questions,”Fiona Campbell, BBC Three Channel Controller.
“We know that this is what the best factual programmes do, they help people understand the world they are living in and drive conversation about stories relevant right now.”
BBC Three is relaunching on linear TV tomorrow, six-years after it went off-air.