{"id":13951,"date":"2022-04-16T01:01:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T23:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1607863"},"modified":"2022-04-16T01:24:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T23:24:19","slug":"the-thief-his-wife-and-the-canoe-creator-on-scenes-they-couldnt-explore","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/the-thief-his-wife-and-the-canoe-creator-on-scenes-they-couldnt-explore\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe creator on scenes they couldn\u2019t explore"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Helen Daly\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Saturday, 16 April 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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New ITV drama The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe<\/a> looks at the bizarre \u2013 yet true \u2013 story of Anne and John Darwin from Hartlepool.<\/p>\n

The married couple, who share two sons together, were sentenced to more than six years in prison each for fraud, when John staged his own death to claim insurance money, with Anne going along with the lie.<\/p>\n

Over the course of four episodes, Monica Dolan and Eddie Marsan portray the couple and tell the unbelievable true story of how they faked a death, almost got away with it, and subsequently got caught.<\/p>\n

While the limited series packs in a lot of detail from the complex true story, there were of course parts that had to be left out.<\/p>

RadioTimes.com<\/a> recently attended a Q&A where writer Chris Lang explained what didn\u2019t make it into the final four-parter.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the elements that we didn\u2019t have time to expand on was his relationship, John\u2019s relationship, with his father. And his relationship with her brother after the discovery of\u00a0what they\u2019ve done.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could have written, you know, another two episodes about the relationships between all of the extended family.\u201d<\/p>\n