Angel Cake
Angel Cake stars Sarah Lancashire (The Cry, Rose and Maloney) as Elaine Wilson, a put-upon housewife, and gifted cake-maker, living on a grimy estate.
One day, a batch of buns emerge from Elaine's oven bearing a remarkable resemblance to the image of the Virgin Mary, and all around her miraculous things start to happen.
Her arthritic mother, Millie, is suddenly doing cartwheels; her womanising son, Todd, falls head over heels in love; his spotty best friend wakes up clear-skinned; and Elaine's overweight best friend, Jax, decides it's time to go on a diet.
They all agree that there can be only one explanation for such miraculous transformations – the Virgin Mary cake, and in no time at all it is the talk of the neighbourhood.
Elaine doesn't have time for such naïve superstition. She has far too much on her plate keeping up with the demands of everyone around her.
When her firefighter husband, Ed, traumatised following an accident at work, becomes more and more distant, Elaine realises that all is not well with her marriage and begins to wonder if there's more to his behaviour than the accident.
Just as she begins to feel that she might lose Ed and the life she knows forever, the possibility of a miracle of her own arrives in the shape of Jeff, a local entrepreneur, who spots her talent and offers to set her up in her own business.
But is this really the miracle that Elaine needs?
When Jax falls off the dieting wagon with disastrous consequences for the cake, the miracles begin to crumble, forcing everyone to reconsider what would really constitute a miracle in their life.
Angel Cake also stars Vicky Hall (Teachers) as Jax; Michael Hodgson (55 Degrees North) as Ed; Rita Tushingham (The Knack… and How To Get It, Bread) as Millie; Dean Stobbart (Where The Heart Is) as Todd; and Simon Slater (Doctors) as Jeff.
Written by Keith Temple (Casualty), directed by Simon Delaney (Cold Feet), produced by Stephen Garwood (Monarch of the Glen) and made for BBC ONE by Celador Productions.
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