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  Meet the cast of BBC's new drama Mayflies

  The period in between Christmas and New Year is the perfect time to do nothing other than polish off the turkey and sit in front of the television and enjoy all that it has to offer – and a new drama from the BBC called Mayflies is a good place to start. MORE: The Traitors' star Wilfred talks mistake that cost him jackpot prize - exclusive Starring a familiar face from another favoured BBC series, Line of Duty, the series tells the story of two old friends who reminisce on the heady days of thei

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  Herald Scotland

  Everything to know about Martin Compston's new drama Mayflies from cast to channel

  Here's everything you need to know about Martin Compston and Tony Curran's new BBC drama.

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  Martin Compston: 'It's the most emotionally present I've ever been on a job'

  As the emotional drama comes to BBC One, Rachael Davis chats to stars Martin Compston and Tony Curran about friendship, men's health and Scotland.

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  The Telegraph

  Mayflies, review: a devastating, daring ode to life, death and friendship

  Not much serious contemporary fiction gets adapted for TV these days. The business model favours open-ended multi-season drama, so the crafted finality of a shortish and well-made novel doesn’t quite fit (or pay) the bill. That Andrew O’Hagan’s autobiographical Mayflies (BBC One), published only two years ago, has slipped through the net is cause for downbeat rejoicing – downbeat only because the richly textured story ended up in Switzerland, where denouements are never less than final.

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  Evening Standard

  Mayflies on BBC One review: Martin Compston brings the festive tears

  4/5 A heartfelt and personable show delivered with a deeply sensitive sincerity

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  Martin Compston's 'most emotionally challenging job' revealed

  Martin Compston stars alongside Tony Curran and Ashley Jensen in the adaptation.

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  Tony Curran: Bromance and kinship with Martin Compston important in Mayflies

  The Scottish actors, who both live in the US, shared their love of coming home and filming in and around Glasgow and Ayrshire.

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  Glasgow Times

  Interview with Martin Compston on 'emotional' role in BBC drama Mayflies

  THERE’S a good reason Martin Compston was not flavour of the month with his friends’ wives for a long time.

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  The Telegraph

  After Life star Ashley Jensen: ‘Women aren’t allowed to get old’

  It has been years since Ashley Jensen gave a face-to-face interview. She did a few Zoom chats during the pandemic, but they weren’t her thing. “I’m quite old-school,” she grins. “I like to talk to people and see the whites of their eyes.” Meeting Jensen feels peculiarly like spending time with someone you know. This is partly because she’s such good company, chatting away about anything and everything, and partly because she made her name playing best friends. She found fame as the lovable Maggi

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  Martin Compston stars in first-look trailer for new BBC drama Mayflies

  Line of Duty's Martin Compston stars in first-look trailer for new BBC drama Mayflies with Tony Curran.

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