The Beaker Girls

Jacqueline Wilson’s perennial character Tracy Beaker returns to our screens in THE BEAKER GIRLS. The new five-part series which I scored hits our screens this December, featuring many familiar faces – Dani Harmer (Tracy) and Emma Maggie Davies (bookish but tough Jess) and a few new ones like Jordan, played by Chi-Megan Ennis. It’s a real emotional rollercoaster of a series which looks at tough, genuine issues of identity, belonging and trust with a compassionate, unflinching but always entertaining eye. The score featured mandolin, banjo, ukelele, piano, Zebra softsynth and clarinet (Barnaby Robson). Photo here by Simon Ridgway