The Primrose Railway Children - Omnibus - 08:55 am Wednesday, April 8 on CBBC

About this Broadcast

Omnibus
Season 1, Episode 1

Adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson's novel inspired by E Nesbit's timeless classic. Phoebe, Becks, Perry and their mother unexpectedly leave their comfortable Glasgow life and relocate to the remote Scottish Highlands. Feature-length drama, starring Kevin McKidd and Nina Toussaint-White

HD subtitles repeat 16x9 audio-description

Children's/Youth Programmes Drama

Cast & Crew

Nina Toussaint-White (Actor) .. Sarah Robinson

Kevin McKidd (Actor) .. Rob Robinson

Ava McCarthy (Actor) .. Phoebe

Ida Brooke (Actor) .. Becks

Tylan Bailey (Actor) .. Perry

Ian Pirie (Actor) .. Thomas Brown

Cormac Maclachlan (Actor) .. Jake Brown

Blythe Duff (Actor) .. Mo

Liz Ewing (Actor) .. Ms Morrison

Piers Ewart (Actor) .. Max

Violet Lee-Barron (Actor) .. Sasha

Tom Bidwell (Writer)

John McKay (Producer)

Julian Kemp (Director)

Alison Davies (Executive producer)

(Executive producer)

More Information

Did You Know..

Nina Toussaint-White (Actor) .. Sarah Robinson

Kevin McKidd (Actor) .. Rob Robinson

Born: August 09, 1973 in Elgin, Scotland

Best Known For: Trainspotting

Early-life: Born August 9, 1973, in Elgin, Scotland. He had an impoverished working-class upbringing on a council estate near Inverness. and is the youngest of two sons of a plumber and a secretary. McKidd loved his childhood 'running around the fields' near his home and allegedly fell into acting because he believed he was too overweight for football. When he appeared in a school play 'everyone laughed either because I was fat, or because I was being funny... it was a good buzz.'

Career: After studying engineering at an Edinburgh College he switched to drama. He landed a part before the course ended, in the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow. Other roles followed, including his breakthrough performance as the ill-fated Tommy in Trainspotting. Subsequent movies have included Regeneration, Hideous Kinky, Dog Soldiers and Mike Leigh's Topsy Turvy. On TV he has played Anna Karenina's love interest, Count Vronsky, in Channel 4's classic adaptation, and more recently, Mary Queen of Scots' lover in Gunpowder, Treason & Plot.

Quote: 'I'd love to be able to get a job big enough to pay off my parents' mortgage. I'd love to say, 'I was a pain as a kid, but there you go'.'

Trivia: He provided the voice for 'Soap' MacTavish in the video games Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in 2009 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in 2011.