![\"Narges](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0_Narges-Rashidi-and-Joseph-Fiennes-star-in-series-about-Nazanin-Zaghari-RatcliffeJPG.jpg\")
Narges Rashidi as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Prisoner 951(Image: BBC\/Dancing Ledge Productions\/Laurence Cendrowicz\/PA)<\/p>\nThe series will recount the period from when Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested on April 3, 2016<\/p>\n
14:00, 23 Nov 2025Updated 14:00, 23 Nov 2025<\/p>\n
Narges Rashidi as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Prisoner 951(Image: BBC\/Dancing Ledge Productions\/Laurence Cendrowicz\/PA)<\/p>\n
Gangs Of London actress Narges Rashidi and Shakespeare In Love’s Joseph Fiennes will star in a new series that follows the imprisonment of Iranian-British citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. The four-part BBC<\/a> factual drama, Prisoner 951, will tell the story of Mrs Ratcliffe \u2013 who was detained and held hostage by the Iranian state for nearly six years.<\/p>\n It will also follow the struggle of her husband, Richard Ratcliffe<\/a>, who went on hunger strike twice while campaigning for his wife’s return.<\/p>\n Narges, 45 \u2013 best known for playing Lale in the drama series Gangs Of London<\/a>, as well as for starring in Under The Shadow and The Allegation \u2013 will portray Mrs Ratcliffe<\/a>, while Joseph, 55 \u2013 known for portraying Commander Fred Waterford, a high-ranking government official in The Handmaid’s Tale <\/a>alongside Elisabeth Moss \u2013 will play her husband.<\/p>\n The series will recount the period from when Nazanin was arrested on April 3, 2016, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard at Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran after a holiday visit, where she had taken her daughter Gabriella to see her parents, to her release and return to the UK six years later.<\/p>\n First look images show Narges as Mrs Ratcliffe at the airport, moments before her arrest, with another photograph capturing Joseph as Mr Ratcliffe during one of his hunger strikes.<\/p>\n Prisoner 951 is based on the memoir A Yard of Sky: A Story Of Love, Resistance And Hope, which was written by the couple as a story of their struggle to get political action and Mrs Ratcliffe home.<\/p>\n The series was adapted by Stephen Butchard and directed by Bafta award winner Philippa Lowthorpe.<\/p>\n How many episodes are there in Prisoner 951?<\/p>\n The four-part series will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Sunday, November 23, at 9pm.<\/p>\n Prisoner 951 cast list<\/p>\n Narges Rashidi as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe<\/p>\n Joseph Fiennes as Richard Ratcliffe<\/p>\n Nicholas Farrell as John Ratcliffe<\/p>\n Marion Bailey as Barbara Ratcliffe<\/p>\n Bijan Daneshmand as Baba<\/p>\n Behi Djanati Atai as Mamani<\/p>\n Catherine Bailey as Rebecca Ratcliffe<\/p>\n Shaun Yusuf McKee as Lim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The series will recount the period from when Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested on April 3, 2016 14:00, 23…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[243,96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-279583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-tv","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279583","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=279583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Narges](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0_prisoner-951-2JPG.jpg\")
Narges Rashidi as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Prisoner 951(Image: BBC\/Dancing Ledge Productions\/PA)<\/p>\n![\"Joseph](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0_Prisoner-951-1JPG.jpg\")
Joseph Fiennes as Richard Ratcliffe in Prisoner 951(Image: BBC\/Dancing Ledge Productions\/Rekha Garton\/PA)<\/p>\n