Crime
Drama
A series that dramatises the shocking story of the true-life murder of former Stowe schoolmaster and deeply closeted evangelical Christian, 69-year-old Peter Farquhar by his 28-year-old student and young churchwarden Ben Field in October 2015.
Top-rated
Mon,
17 Jul, 2023
S1.E1Episode 1
A meeting between an inspirational teacher and a charismatic student in Buckinghamshire ends up setting the stage for one of the most complex criminal cases in recent memory.
Top-rated
Tue,
18 Jul, 2023
S1.E2Episode 2
As a community mourns, Ben begins a relationship with Peter’s neighbour, Ann Moore-Martin, to the increasing concern of her niece Ann-Marie.
Timothy Spall
Peter Farquhar
Anne Reid
Ann Moore-Martin
Éanna Hardwicke
Ben Field
Annabel Scholey
Ann-Marie Blake
Anna Crilly
Natalie Golding
Jonathan Aris
DCI Mark Glover
Peter Sullivan
David Jeremy
Ben Bailey Smith
Simon Blake
Sheila Hancock
Elizabeth Zettl
Adrian Rawlins
Ian Farquhar
Amanda Root
Sue Farquhar
Conor MacNeill
Martyn Smith
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Review
Featured review
I have pretty much stopped watching these British dramas based on real murder cases because, even though they are all separate cases, these investigations seem to often cover the same story arc. So they have little room for imaginative storytelling or structure.
I decided to watch this show, however, because I really like Timothy Spall and Anne Reid, him all the way from his Mike Leigh films and her from her Coronation Street role decades ago. They also seem to only pick good productions to appear in. They were both excellent in this miniseries, Spall perhaps award-worthy in fact. Their and other performances in the cast covered up what indeed did strike me as the usual story arc I mentioned above. The detective inspective shone while not showing anger, violent tendencies, or other outbursts that afflict many tv mystery dectectives.
narrator5630 Jul, 2023
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