Best – His Mother’s Son (BBC Two) was a gloomy drama about Ann Best, mother of George, who was strictly teetotal until her mid-40s, when she had her first sip of sherry to celebrate her son’s footballing success. Ten years later, she was dead from alcoholism-related heart disease. The recreation of late-Sixties Belfast was accurate and, thank goodness, intelligently subdued: no comedy Ulster accents and no point-scoring subplot about the Troubles.
Lorcan Cranitch
as Dickie Best
Luke de Woolfson
as Dave Sadler
Laurence Doherty
as Journalist
Laura Donnelly
as Barbara Best
Richard Dormer
as Ad Director
Michelle Fairley
as Ann Best
Stephen Hagan
as Steve Fullaway
Paul Kennedy
as Reporter
Niamh McGrady
as Martha Devine
Tom Payne
as George Best
Bronágh Taggart
as Ruby Emerson
