BBC Three explore ‘What It Feels Like For A Girl’

The Beeb has today released a trailer for What It Feels Like For A Girl…

The production is the corporation’s forthcoming Y2K coming-of-age drama, inspired by the memoir of the same name by the writer and journalist Paris Lees. The series will be available in full on BBC iPlayer from Tuesday 3 June, when it will also begin its BBC Three transmission.

What It Feels Like For A Girl is described by the BBC as ‘a raw, heartbreaking and hilarious drama that explores escape, self-discovery and self-destruction.’

It’s a new millennium and there’s a whole world to explore. But teenager Byron (Ellis Howard) is stuck in a small working-class town that hasn’t been the same since the coal mine shut down in the 80s. Byron needs to get away and doesn’t care how.

Life explodes in a rush when Byron escapes to Nottingham’s vibrant underworld, discovering a realm of drink, drugs, and a chaotic family of troublemakers – “The Fallen Divas”. Byron finds a gang of kindred spirits in the mesmerising Lady Die (Laquarn Lewis), Sticky Nikki (Alex Thomas-Smith), Dirty Damian (Adam Ali), while an intense rivalry brews between Byron and the beautiful, acid-tongued Sasha (Hannah Jones).

Between them, they beg, steal and skank their way on a rollercoaster ride of hedonism at the heart of the UK’s early 2000s club scene. The party can’t last forever though, and when Byron is seduced by bad-boy Liam, a shocking encounter occurs that will change life forever. Calam Lynch is Max, Jake Dunn is Liam and Dickie Beau is Peter.

Further cast includes Emma Shipp (Rivals), Sekou Diaby (Boarders), Laura Checkley (Screw), Oliver Huntingdon (Sherwood), Lorn Macdonald (Bridgerton), and Rhys Connah (Happy Valley), with guest appearances from Fay Ripley (Cold Feet) and Selina Mosinski (aka Charity Shop Sue).

What It Feels Like For A Girl from June 3rd on BBC Three and the iPlayer