Actress Samantha Morton is to make her directorial debut next year with a drama for Channel 4 about a young girl growing up in a children's home.

Morton's film, called The Unloved, forms part of a line-up of three major new projects unveiled by the broadcaster, including a new two-part series called Palestine from Britz writer and director Peter Kosminsky.

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