Dancing on the Edge

Dancing on the Edge

Steven Poliakoff writes this five-part drama set in London in the 1930s following the rise and fall of a black jazz band. As their success leads them to mingle with the upper class, the members of the Louis Lester Band feel insusceptible to a prejudice society. But before long one of them dies in suspicious circumstances and a darkness begins to descend upon the group as they realise how precarious their situation has become.

The cast includes John Goodman, Jacqueline Bisset, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Matthew Goode, Joanna Vanderham and Janet Montgomery.