![]() ![]() ![]() Phelps is best known for A Very British Scandal and her masterly adaptations of various Agatha Christie novels, but here she applies all her considerable craft to making something much more subtle and even more savage, in its own quiet, terrible way. Before that he subjected them both – especially Peter – to repeated poisonings and various forms of mental torture for no other reason than for sport. Written by Sarah Phelps and directed by Saul Dibb, it tells the true story of retired Stowe schoolmaster Peter Farquhar (Timothy Spall) and his neighbour Ann Moore-Martin (Anne Reid) who, one after the other, were befriended by a young churchwarden called Ben Field (Éanna Hardwicke), who made himself indispensable to their lives and who, after they changed their wills to make him the main beneficiary, murdered Peter and attempted to murder Ann.
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