Forever Young is a 1983 film[2] (US release 1986) written by Ray Connolly and directed by David Drury[3] for Channel 4 as part of their First Love series.
The two meet again twenty years later when Jimmy sees posters advertising one of Michael's regular fundraising concerts in his church hall.
At one of their concerts, Jimmy (played in flashback by Julian Firth) catches sight of Maureen (Oona Kirsch) and tells Michael (Jason Carter) that he has fallen in love.
Father Michael is good friends with Mary (Karen Archer, previously in Giro City) and her son Paul (Liam Holt), who idolises him and wants to become a priest himself.
The lyrics to the theme music to the film, the song Forever Young, were written by Ray Connolly to a tune based on Farewell to Stromness by Peter Maxwell Davies.