Prisoner 951
Released
2025
Broadcaster
BBC One
Duration
4 x 60
Genre
Drama, History, Thriller

In 2016, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is torn from her 22-month-old daughter, arrested, falsely accused of espionage, and imprisoned in Iran. Thousands of miles away, in London, her husband Richard refuses to stay silent and does everything in his power to bring her home.When it is revealed that Nazanin is a pawn in a decades-old political dispute, Richard wages a campaign to free her, battling tyranny abroad and seeming indifference at home. 

Spanning six harrowing years and based on the first-hand accounts of Nazanin and Richard, as well as extensive research, this powerful true story charts one family’s extraordinary courage and resilience in the face of unimaginable adversity.

Reviews

"Narges Rashidi is perfectly cast, capturing both Nazanin’s misery and towering dignity"
— The Times
★★★★☆
"The cast, including Joseph Fiennes, are excellent"
— The Guardian
★★★★☆
"This really is Nazanin and Richard's stories, as it should be."
— The Radio Times
★★★★☆
"The excruciating passage of time is captured brilliantly, and you lose count of the number of times Nazanin is tormented by dashed hopes."
— The Independent
★★★★☆

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