Come Home, Tuesdays from 27 March, 9pm, BBC One/HD (CH 101/108). Also available for 30 days in Catch Up > Channels > BBC iPlayer

“Outspoken” isn’t a word we’d have normally used to describe Christopher Eccleston. And yet the Salford-born actor – best known for playing The Ninth Doctor and his roles in The A Word, The Leftovers and Thor: The Dark World – has surprised us all recently with a few choice words on his exit from the TARDIS. So when we sat down with him to discuss his latest project – BBC One’s Come Home – we had a feeling there might be more where that came from!

Eccleston stars as Greg, whose wife Marie (Broken’s Paula Malcomson) makes the painful decision to leave him and their three children. Over the course of three episodes, we find out what compelled her to make this decision, from across the family’s differing perspectives and using mutiple time-frames and flashbacks.