This was the most difficult project we've ever had to cast. We needed to find children between 9-14 years old who had a parent serving a long-term prison sentence. To comply with BBC regulations, the crime the parent had committed had to be ‘victimless’, which ruled many people out, but the real challenge was that the child had to be open about their parent being in prison.
Even though 1 in 7 children experience the incarceration of a parent during their childhood this is still an experience that is shrouded in secrecy.
