A video put together in a Blackdown Hills farmhouse helped Angela Bull land a part in Honour, a harrowing crime drama on ITV.

Nearly seven million viewers have watched the drama, based on the true story of Banaz Mahmod, a young Iraqi-Kurdish woman living in London, who was raped, tortured and murdered by her own family for rejecting their choice of husband and falling in love with someone else.

Angela, who lives in Barne Farm, Clayhidon, played one of several police officers who failed to investigate when Banaz reported threats against her.

Angela’s character – based on a real-life police officer, but with her name changed – went on to accuse the only detective who doggedly pursued the case – played by Keeley Hawes – of attempting to pervert the course of justice.

The two-part drama – which is still available to watch on the ITV Hub – is Angela’s most recent television role in her 30-year career as an actress and producer, mostly in live theatre. She landed the part more than a year ago after sending the video – a digital audition known in the business as a self-tape – and attending an interview.

She and her husband Andy moved to Clayhidon from Islington three years ago ‘for fresh air and to get more of a work-life balance’ but she has had more work than ever. She was in The Marilyn Conspiracy, a sell-out hit at the Edinburgh Festival in 2018 – now there’s hope it will be transferred to London’s West End.

Angela also works as a theatre producer. Her award-winning company, Epsilon Productions, makes ‘exhilarating, risk-taking theatre that strikes debate and is sometimes as difficult for the audience as it is for the actors’.