All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Lenny Henry, ranked

The heart-wrenching but moving story of Leon a nine-year-old mixed-race boy who fights to reunite his family after being taken into care and separated from his blue-eyed, blond, baby brother Jake. Set in Birmingham in the 1980s Leon’s struggle is pitched against the backdrop of the race riots, forcing the young boy to explore the notions of identity and belonging.

Harry is back at the Dursleys’ for the summer holidays, where he sees on Muggle television that a convict named Sirius Black has escaped from prison. After being picked up by the Knight Bus, meeting Stan Shunpike, and encountering a large black dog that seems to be watching him, he travels to the Leaky Cauldron, where Cornelius Fudge, the Minister for Magic, asks Harry to stay in Diagon Alley for his own protection.

Set in early-1830s Jamaica, this BBC adaptation of Andrea Levy’s novel depicts the story of sugar cane plantation slave July as she adapts to her new role as a house slave for the demanding Caroline Mortimer and the arrival of the progressive overseer Robert Goodwin. Their fates become entwined during the 1831 Christmas Rebellion and the subsequent years of societal change.

Set 1200 years before the events of the television series, Blood Origin depicts the creation of the first Witcher, as well as the events leading to the “Conjunction of the Spheres”. It also explores the ancient Elven civilization before its demise.