Liz Jensen’s bestselling 2009 novel The Rapture is to be adapted into a five-part drama starring Ruth Madeley (Years and Years, Then Barbara Met Alan, Doctor Who) and produced by Mammoth Screen (The Serpent, World on Fire) for BBC One and BBC iPlayer

The writer is Bryony Kimmings (Last Christmas), with Rebecca Manley (episode four), and is directed by Chanya Button (World On Fire and one of the forthcoming Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials starring David Tennant).

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Recovering from a car crash which has left her paralysed, forensic psychologist Gabrielle Fox (Ruth Madeley) takes a job working in a maximum security facility for juvenile patients. Here she meets 16-year-old inmate Bethany Krall who was found guilty of brutally murdering her mother and tells Gabs that she has psychic powers. Is she a highly manipulative psychopath or is she telling the truth when she says she can foretell a natural disaster linked to climate catastrophe?

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