BBC One has announced that the second season of Our Girl will begin next month.

Five new episodes of BBC One’s army drama began filming in South Africa earlier this year, with Coronation Street star Michelle Keegan replacing former lead Lacey Turner as medic Corporal Georgie Lane.

Season 2 launches at 9pm on Wednesday 7 September on BBC One.

Watch the teaser…

The cast also includes returning star Ben Aldridge as Captain James, with Luke Pasqualino (The Musketeers) as maverick Special Forces officer Elvis Harte, Royce Pierreson (Murdered By My Boyfriend) as Dr Jamie Cole, Rolan Bell (Doctors) as Sergeant King, Sean Sagar (Top Boy) as Monk and Anthony Oseyemi (Behind Enemy Lines) as the Kenyan forces’ Captain Osman.

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Season 2’s opening episode sees experienced army medic Lance Corporal Georgie Lane (Michelle Keegan) join Captain James (Ben Aldridge) and 2 Section on a humanitarian tour to Kenya. She has promised her fiancé, Doctor Jamie Cole (Royce Pierreson) that she’ll return home soon to marry him.

2 Section is posted to a refugee camp near the border of Somalia and as soon as they pull into the camp Georgie jumps straight to work, when an IED explodes harming many refugees. When aid worker, Kicki (Anna Tenta), is kidnapped, Georgie’s determination to find her lands her in great danger.

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