Priscilla White (Sheridan Smith, Black Work, Mrs Biggs) is a typist from working-class Liverpool who dreams of stardom; Bobby Willis (Aneurin Barnard, War & Peace) is the chancer who ignores the city's Protestant-Catholic divide to pursue her; Brian Epstein (Ed Stoppard, Home Fires) is the young genius who will later guide The Beatles to superstardom. Cilla tells the true story of how the lives of these three intertwine to propel Cilla to the top of the charts and beyond.. . but at a cost.