Grief turned into a decades-long fight for the truth drives Anne, a 2022 British drama series from director Bruce Goodison.
What is Anne about?
Set in Formby, near Liverpool, the series follows Anne Williams after the death of her fifteen-year-old son Kevin, who was killed at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. Rather than treating the disaster itself as the story, the series stays with Anne in its aftermath, tracking how one mother's private grief hardens into a public campaign that runs for years against official accounts of what happened that day. Maxine Peake plays Williams, carrying the series through the toll that campaigning takes on her family and her own health, while the people around her, played by Stephen Walters, Bobby Schofield, and a supporting cast that includes Rob Jarvis and Clare Calbraith, register the strain of living alongside someone who cannot let the matter rest. The show moves between courtrooms, kitchen tables, and quiet domestic scenes, building a portrait of a woman whose loss becomes inseparable from her identity as she keeps pressing when institutions would rather the questions stopped. It is a British production, made for audiences who lived through the period it covers as much as for those encountering it for the first time.
About the cast
Maxine Peake stars as Anne Williams, with Stephen Walters and Bobby Schofield among the family and community figures whose lives are reshaped alongside hers over the course of the campaign.
Context & significance
Directed by Bruce Goodison, Anne is a British drama series built around a real family's decades of campaigning, and it holds closely to the domestic, personal scale of that fight rather than widening into courtroom procedural or investigative journalism format.
Watching Anne on Ktime
Anne is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login, part of a catalogue built for Persian-speaking audiences who want strong international drama alongside a Farsi-first browsing experience.