Created and written by Kay Mellor, In The Club, which can be seen on BBC First (DStv channel 119) from 9 pm on Sunday, May 8, is a warm, funny and dramatic series, which tells the stories of six pregnant women and their partners, who are brought together by the life-changing experience of imminent parenthood.

Meeting at a weekly parent-craft class, these diverse characters range from a 40-something businesswoman going through a messy divorce after falling for a penniless young artist, to a housewife who finds out she’s expecting miracle twins just as her husband takes drastic action to deal with mounting debts.

There’s also a scared 15-year-old schoolgirl desperately trying to conceal her pregnancy, a newlywed young woman worried that a stupid mistake could ruin her marriage and a teaching assistant fighting her growing feelings for the biological father of the child she’s expecting with her female partner.

As the babies begin to arrive, only one thing’s for sure – nothing will ever be the same again!

The programme centres on the inquisitive Twirlywoos; four colourful bird-like creatures who have come from far away to seek adventure and fun in a world that is new and interesting to them.

The characters include Great BigHoo, the blue inquisitive Twirlywoo, Toodloo, the red flamboyant Twirlywoo, and Chickedy and Chick – two small yellow Twirlywoos who are inseparable friends.

There’s also Peekaboo – a secret character who can be seen by the audience but not the Twirlywoos!

In each episode the characters learn about something new. In series one, the Twirlywoos learn about up and down when they play with a bouncy ball, and turn a piece of outstretched elastic into a trampoline.

They also get carried away trying to wrap things up after watching a woman pack a present, have fun on a roundabout and find out how to make something shorter when they unravel a woollen blanket.