Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and a police and political leadership incapable of the imagination or courage necessary to respond to the drug problem.

• Sean McKee
• Emma Bird
• Pete Postlethwaite
• Anna Keaveney
• John Bennett
• Paul Barber
• Gary Mavers
• Jake Abraham