{"id":230512,"date":"2025-10-28T17:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T17:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/230512\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T17:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T17:50:09","slug":"bbc-to-film-new-drama-but-when-we-dance-in-north-norfolk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/230512\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC to film new drama But When We Dance in north Norfolk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  But When We Dance is a touching story about two people who have lots in common &#8211; including Parkinson\u2019s.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning Laura Linney and BAFTA award-winning Rhys Ifans will star in the title roles.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ifans plays the role of Tony Evans, the deputy head of a local primary school, while\u00a0Linney portrays\u00a0Emma Dretzin, a pianist, composer and single mother of two daughters.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Monica Dolan has joined the cast of But When We Dance (Image: Ian West\/PA Wire)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The characters do not know each other until an encounter changes the course of their lives when, on the same morning, they are both\u00a0diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Director John Madden said: \u201cI am really looking forward to telling the story of Tony and Emma &#8211; a friendship which unfolds unexpectedly. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cA story of humour and emotion, of challenge and bravado, of music and dance &#8211; transcending the assumptions of a little understood condition, and triumphing over the odds to find joy, release and love.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Monica Dolan, from Mr Bates vs The Post Office and Black Mirror, and Rory Kinnear, who is currently in The Diplomat on Netflix, also star in the 90-minute film. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/25575636.caroline-flacks-mum-shares-regrets-disney-documentary\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"omni-lead-story__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Caroline Flack&#8217;s mum shares her &#8216;biggest regret&#8217; in teaser for new documentary<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Writer Paul Mayhew-Archer, who was diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s in 2011 at the age of 58, added:\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s incurable and it makes many of the things I do &#8211; walking, talking, smiling &#8211; increasingly difficult. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cBut though I have reasons to hate Parkinson\u2019s, it has also brought me opportunities I wouldn\u2019t have missed for the world. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThe latest of these is the chance to work with the brilliant director John Madden and wonderful actors on bringing this story to life.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Parkinson\u2019s UK estimates that someone is diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s every 20 minutes in the UK.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But When We Dance is a touching story about two people who have lots in common &#8211; including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-230512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}