Cilla

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  1. Episode 1

  60m

  Priscilla White is a Liverpool typist with dreams of escaping the office and becoming a singer. It looks like her chance has come when she meets songwriter Bobby Willis, who claims to be in the music industry - so she's less than impressed to later discover his flash car is hired and he actually works in a bakery. Despite this inauspicious start, Cilla agrees to let him manage her, but will their arrangement still stand after her friends, a local band by the name of the Beatles, help her land an audition with genuine impresario Brian Epstein?

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  2. Episode 2

  60m

  As Cilla's confidence returns, Brian Epstein gives her a second chance and convinces her to change direction and gamble on a ballad.

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  3. Episode 3

  60m

  The success of her first single, 'Anyone Who Had a Heart' is soon followed by a second single, 'You're My World' which goes to number one. However she fails to break America, and her relationship with Bobby is beginning to have an affect on her success.

Cast

Sheridan Smith

Cilla Black

Aneurin Barnard

Bobby Willis

Ed Stoppard

Brian Epstein

John Henshaw

John White

Melanie Hill

Priscilla White

Ceri Dupree

Danny La Rue

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Tom Dunlea

Ringo Starr

Jack Farthing

John Lennon

Kevin Mains

Paul McCartney

Michael Hawkins

George Harrison

Elliot Cowan

George Martin

Shaun Mason

Trevor