Olivia Colman heads stellar cast for BBC1’s The Secrets

BBC drama has revealed a stellar cast including Olivia Colman and Alison Steadman featuring in the upcoming BBC1 series The Secrets.

Directed by True Love's Dominic Savage and scripted by up-and-coming writers including Bad Education actress Sarah Solemani, The Secrets is a collection of five self-contained stories, starting with the tale of a bigamist, starring Joanne Froggatt, Ben Chaplin and Emilia Fox.

Gavin & Stacey's Alison and Broadchurch actress Olivia team up for the second episode, about a terminally ill woman and her daughter, and the cast for the three other stories includes Helen Baxendale, Ashley Walters and Solemani, who will star in her self-penned tale of a bride who makes a shocking discovery on the eve of her wedding.

“I'm thrilled that Dominic has assembled such a stellar line up,” says Juliette Howell, head of television at Working Title, who are making the series.

“It's hugely exciting to see so many of our finest actors bringing these original and distinctive new voices to life on BBC One.”