Churchill's Secret: Matthew Macfadyen joins cast of new ITV/PBS film

ITV has announced that several new cast members for the 120 min film that will be shown on ITV in the UK and PBS in the US (It will air in 2016 in the US).

Matthew Macfadyen will play one of Churchill's adult children, as Randolph Churchill.

Told from the viewpoint of his young Nurse, Millie Appleyard, the drama follows his battle to recover as his long suffering wife Clemmie, desperately hopes the stroke will force Winston to retire while his political friends and foe scheme to plot who will succeed him. 
 
Meanwhile his adult children - descend on Chartwell, unsure if he will pull through, as tensions within his family begin to surface. 
Filming begins this month (June 2015) in London, Hayes and at Churchill’s principal family home, Chartwell in Kent.
 
Churchill’s Secret is a Daybreak Pictures/MASTERPIECE Co-production for ITV.
 
For more information, see the ITV press release.
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