A new Peacock mini-series dramatizes a father’s obsessive investigation into Britain’s worst terrorist attack: the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

The father of a Lockerbie bombing victim has said people must “remember the consequences of terrorism” in the light of a recent terror attack in New Orleans. Dr Jim Swire began his campaign for justice after the death of his 23-year-old daughter Flora Swire in the 1988 bombing of a Pan-Am jumbo jet flying from London to New York,

Given modern TV drama’s fondness for flashbacks, I expected Lockerbie: A Search For Truth to open with these statistics as a sobering reminder of what’s to come. But director Otto Bathurst knows you know what happened in Lockerbie – or at least that it was the worst terrorist attack in UK history.