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Perhaps the most bizarre aspect of The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe is the fact the upcoming ITV drama is based on a very true story, starring real people.<\/p>\n
The four-part ITV series tells the story of Anne and John Darwin, a couple from Hartlepool so deeply in debt they did the unthinkable \u2013 faked John\u2019s death to claim insurance money.<\/p>\n
The terrible crime resulted in the family falling apart \u2013 after all, both sons didn\u2019t know what their parents had done, assuming their dad was dead and their mother was grieving. Both Anne and John received sentences of six years and served just under three years in prison for fraud.<\/p>\n
At a Q&A for The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe attended by RadioTimes.com<\/a>, the creative team behind the new ITV drama revealed that one of the Darwin sons actually attended filming \u2013 not that anyone knew about it.<\/p> \u201c[He was there] on the first day of filming, in disguise,\u201d explained executive producer David Nath. \u201cWe didn\u2019t know he was there until a few weeks later.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019d heard he\u2019d come in a baseball cap,\u201d added Monica Dolan, who plays Anne Darwin.<\/p>\n Nath continued: \u201cYeah, with a COVID mask on to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n The team didn\u2019t get any feedback from the son on what he saw.<\/p>\n Neither Anne, John, nor any of their children wanted to be involved in The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe.<\/p>\n Writer Chris Lang explained: \u201cNo direct contact. We approached them all, and none of them were interested in discussing or collaborating on the project.<\/p>\n \u201cDavid Leigh<\/a>, who was the journalist who broke the story and wrote the book<\/a> which was a part of the research into the project, does still speak to Anne and has a good relationship with her. I think he hopefully has been able to reassure her that it is as sympathetic a telling of her story as is possible, given what she did. But no, they didn\u2019t want to get involved.\u201d<\/p>\n If you\u2019re looking for more to watch, check out our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>. Visit our\u00a0Drama<\/a> hub for all the latest news.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The latest issue of Radio Times is on sale now \u2013\u00a0subscribe now<\/a>\u00a0to get each issue delivered to your door. For more from the biggest stars in TV, l<\/strong>isten to the\u00a0Radio Times podcast<\/a>\u00a0with Jane Garvey.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Helen Daly Published: Wednesday, 23 March 2022 at 12:00 am Perhaps the most bizarre aspect of The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe is the fact the upcoming ITV drama is based on a very true story, starring real people. The four-part ITV series tells the story of Anne and John Darwin, a couple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":12663,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/03\/john-and-anne-darwins-son-secretly-watched-new-drama-filming-scaled.jpg",2560,1754,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/03\/john-and-anne-darwins-son-secretly-watched-new-drama-filming-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/03\/john-and-anne-darwins-son-secretly-watched-new-drama-filming-300x206.jpg",300,206,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/03\/john-and-anne-darwins-son-secretly-watched-new-drama-filming-768x526.jpg",768,526,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/03\/john-and-anne-darwins-son-secretly-watched-new-drama-filming-1024x702.jpg",800,548,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/03\/john-and-anne-darwins-son-secretly-watched-new-drama-filming-1536x1052.jpg",1536,1052,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/03\/john-and-anne-darwins-son-secretly-watched-new-drama-filming-2048x1403.jpg",2048,1403,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Helen Daly Published: Wednesday, 23 March 2022 at 12:00 am Perhaps the most bizarre aspect of The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe is the fact the upcoming ITV drama is based on a very true story, starring real people. The four-part ITV series tells the story of Anne and John Darwin, a couple…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/12662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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