Anne-Marie Duff and Rafe Spall, starring in a new drama focusing on the impact the real-life 2018 Novichok poisonings had on the local community...

This was a story that captured headlines around the world? ANNE-MARIE, 49: When you think about Salisbury, you think of a beautiful city with its beautiful cathedral.

The power of it all was that this smallish place had something happen to it that was akin to a huge disaster movie. It could’ve been globally catastrophic. RAFE, 37: Working on a show that garnered attention around the world is interesting, but the drama really isn’t about politics – it’s about human beings in desperate situations Anne-Marie – you play Wiltshire Council public health director Tracy Daszkiewicz? ANNE-MARIE: Tracy was very much in the middle of it all, but we had a real sense that her story hadn’t been told. Even when you Google this subject, she’s hardly there and it seems such an irony because she was such a key part of it all.

And Rafe, we see you as police officer, Nick Bailey?

RAFE: He was a high-flying, extremely dedicated, intelligent police officer. He’s at work on a Sunday and hears over the radio that there are two people with a suspected fentanyl overdose. These desperate circumstances ensue that change his life – and his family’s lives – forever. It’s really harrowing for them and I just want to do them a service of getting their story out there. What did you think of the script? RAFE: Reading it blew my mind. Because of how outrageous the entire thing was, but also what I loved about it was that it was from ordinary people’s perspectives. It’s the sort of thing you never imagine would happen to you, and it happened to these people. It was moving, harrowing and dangerous, and therefore so important to bring it to a wider audience.