Programme Overview
Description
The A Word is a drama series for BBC One about a messy, extended family with a child newly diagnosed with autism at its center, based on the Israeli series by the same name.
More than that, it is a drama about a family who cannot communicate. Not because they aren’t smart, articulate, or funny, but because, like most of us, there is a gulf between their deepest feelings and how they express those feelings. The A Word is a smart, contemporary drama full of ideas – about parenthood, about disability, about community. It is funny, audacious, raw, and innovative – and in shining a light on this particular and unusual set of circumstances, it will have universal appeal for anyone who has ever been driven crazy by their family…
Read an interview with Christopher Eccleston in the New York Post here.