The Preston Passion play on Good Friday was shown live on BBC from Preston Bus Station. Yes this sounds unromantic yet Preston Bus Station is a huge structure of unique style well suited to such a performance.
The performance used scenes of Preston and Lancashire, and local people played a major role. Fern Britton hosted and Jamelia sang the finale.
The story was based on three stories including the cotton workers riots of 1842, a mother sending her son to war in 1916 and a young girl in difficulty in 2012. Over 1 million are estimated to have watched the live performance on TV, although we watched it on iPlayer.