From the writer of Calendar Girls comes a new comedy that reunites writer Tim Firth with actor Stephen Tompkinson (Ballykissangel, Drop the Dead Donkey, Wild at Heart) for the first time since their multi-award winning TV series Preston Front and Christmas comedy The Flint Street Nativity.

From forty-foot yellow IKEAs to five-foot red COMETs, Frank Tollit (Tompkinson) has put up giant letters on the sides of buildings for over twenty-five years.

It’s his talent… but not his ambition. That involves letters of a very different sort – literary ones. And lack of success is driving him to the edge. But not even in one of his wildest plots could Frank have dreamed that salvation would turn up in the shape of a clumsy teenager on work experience. This master simply isn’t prepared for what his apprentice is about to teach him, sixty feet up on a ledge above Yorkshire. And neither one is prepared for the surprises in store at their next high-level meeting…

Deliciously funny, affectionate and touching, Sign Of The Times is an acutely-observed human comedy about the art of achieving happiness in unpredictable times.