Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter will star as one of Hollywood’s most tempestuous couples – Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor – in a one-off 90-minute BBC drama. Burton and Taylor will follow the couple’s private and public relationship, played out against the backdrop of their ill-fated appearance in a 1983 revival of Noel Coward’s stage play, Private Lives.

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