On 26 February 1993 12-year-old Tim Parry was killed by an IRA bomb planted in a busy shopping area of Warrington; and his family, particularly his father Colin, became spokespeople for a horror that refused to give in to hate. The Parrys would not perpetuate the anger that had killed their son: instead, they sought to find some spark of hope.

In his drama Mother’s Day (3 September), writer Nick Leather (who also worked on the brilliant Broken with Sean Bean as a priest) looked at the events of that terrible day but put two women, two mothers, centre stage.