The 90-minute single drama is written by William Ivory (Women In Love, Bert & Dickie).

Burton and Taylor will star Dominic West (The Hour) and Helena Bonham Carter (Great Expectations) as the volatile ex-lovers in the story of their ill-fated appearance in a 1983 revival of Noel Coward’s stage play, Private Lives.

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BBC Controller of Drama, Ben Stephenson commented earlier this week: “Drama and the BBC are inseparable – it is written through the BBC like a stick of rock. No other broadcaster in the world has drama so firmly in its DNA. My aim is to build a BBC drama department that has an enormous international reputation. That means making us more British than ever – it is about applying the Danny Boyle vision to our work – a bold, adventurous, authorial approach that exports because of its Britishness not despite it. A BBC that feels inspiringly creative – where there is a buzz and creativity and anything goes optimism.”

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