High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Small Island is a two-part 2009 BBC One television drama adapted from the 2004 novel of the same title by Andrea Levy. The programme stars Naomie Harris and Ruth Wilson as joint respective female protagonists Hortense Roberts and Queenie Bligh, two women who struggle to fulfil their personal ambitions and dreams amidst the chaos of World War II London and Jamaica. Additional cast members include David Oyelowo as Hortense`s husband Gilbert Joseph, Benedict Cumberbatch as Queenie`s husband Bernard Bligh and Ashley Walters as young RAF Pilot Michael Roberts who becomes entangled in both the women`s lives, unknowingly to them.