Colin Firth photographed on the set of new drama series based on bombing in Lockerbie, Scotland.

The English actor plays Dr. Jim Swire, grieving father, in the Sky series. Dr Swire and his wife Jane led the campaign for an inquiry into the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988, as their daughter Flora was among the 270 people killed in the tragedy.

Colin Firth was photographed on set walking through the “debris” of the Bathgate flight.

A total of 259 people, the 243 passengers and 16 crew members, were killed on the flight along with 11 people on the ground in the Dumfries and Galway area.

It is the deadliest terrorist attack in British history. The series is based on the book ‘The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search For Justice’ by Dr Swire and Peter Pindalf.

The series explores Dr Swire’s fight for action and his appointment as a representative of the victims’ families through the UK Families Flight 103 group and will look at the disaster and its aftermath.

Dr. Swire told the BBC in December 2022 that he wanted a UN tribunal to be set up, rather than the case being heard by the US or Scotland, and had long wanted the evidence against the only man convicted of the attack – Abdelbaset al-Megrahi – to be reassessed.