TV review: The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe, Chivalry, and Pilgrimage: The road to the Scottish Isles
JOHN DARWIN’s life insurance fraud made ideal television. In Chris Lang’s four-part true-crime drama The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe (ITV, first episode 17 April), the story of Darwin’s faked death by canoe accident and of the deceits that followed was told from the perspective of his co-conspirator, or coerced victim: his wife, Anne, played by Monica Dolan
29 Apr 2022