The BBC are airing a new drama series from this Sunday called The Last Enemy, based around the concept of a Britain being a high-surveillance police state.

When the writer of Prime Suspect, Peter Berry, started a new TV drama set in a “near future” Britain that’s become a security state, he didn’t expect current events to overtake his imagined plot.

As this article on the series reminds us:

Yet the innocent do have something to hide - their privacy, and that is linked to dignity. The innocent will have to prove every day that they are innocent by what is on their card.

The Last Enemy is on BBC 1 at 2100GMT on Sundays from 17 February.