That Summer Day is a one-hour docudrama directed by Jon East, written by Clive Bradley (who also wrote Last Rights), produced by Hannah Pescod and executive produced by Jon East and Mark Redhead that provides a fictional account of the lives of six children on the day of the bombings of the London public transport system on 7 July 2005.
The drama combines fictional elements and archive footage from television and radio to document the effect the events had on the children.
The programme's creation is the result from the correspondence the CBBC website received following the events, from children struggling to come to terms with it.
[1] In the press release announcing the programme, executive producer Mark Redhead said: We aimed to make a film that would go a small way towards making sense of the events and to explore themes about racial and religious tension, loss and fear, as well as highlighting positives like love, family and friendship.The racial tensions described becomes apparent when the Muslim character Ayesha is not allowed on the bus by the bus driver because Islamic extremists are suspected to be involved in the attack.
Muslim Bass Guitar player Ayesha has been the focus of bully Kelly Davies since the start of the day when she accidentally bumped into her and made her drop her mobile phone.
Kelly turns on Marie when she shows remorse for joining her in bullying Ayesha and throws her book out of the window.
Ben eventually finds his dad, who is covered in patches of soot and blood stains; he was travelling on one of the bombed underground trains and was one carriage down from the explosion.