Star of Yorkshire's Gentleman Jack Suranne Jones to narrate BBC childbirth show

BBC One has commissioned the new six-part documentary series Life and Birth.

The series will look at the experience through the eyes of the parents and staff at three Birmingham maternity units, Heartlands Hospital, Good Hope Hospital and Birmingham Women’s Hospital.

Creative director of producers Dragonfly, Richard Bond, said: “Warm, funny and truthful, often nail-bitingly tense, and always deeply emotional, this is 360 storytelling at its best.”

She said: “A lot of people do try to make out like pregnancy is full of rainbows and magic. It’s not this big bubble of glitter that everybody makes out.

“But you are over the moon and happy when you are handed that baby at the end. That’s the part that makes everything worth it.”

The show, due to air in spring, combines prime lens documentary filming techniques with fixed rig cameras along with graphics of the social media and text messages shared between loved ones.