Tonight BBC1 aired A Song For Jenny, a drama based on Julie Nicholson’s book which explores her response to her daughter’s death at Edgeware Road tube station in the July 7 bombings.

The drama was screened two days before the 10th anniversary of the bombings.

Julie Nicholson’s daughter Jenny, who was 24, was killed in one of a series of explosions on the capital’s transport network.

A song for Jenny
(Screenshot BBC1)

A song for Jenny
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The drama replays real news footage from the day and relives the horrors of what it’s like to have had a family member involved in the tragedy.

Emily Watson played the lead in the drama.

Emily Watson actress
(Joel Ryan/Invision)

Adapted by the award-winning Irish playwright Frank McGuinness, the drama follows the Nicholson family’s journey from denial, through to anger and mourning.

A very poignant turning point in the drama comes when it is revealed that most of the injured on the underground had been identified, implying that Jenny was no longer alive.

(Screenshot BBC1)
(Screenshot BBC1)

Jenny’s body is later identified. The family are told that they must wait 28 days before her body is released.

Julie decides that she must visit Jenny’s body.

A song for Jenny
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Losing her child made Julie question her career choice to be a priest.

Julie chose to piece together how Jenny’s day so that she could make sense of what had happened. She described this as “her daughter’s Stations of the Cross”.

A song for Jenny
(Screenshot BBC1)

52 people were killed in the London bombings.