The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
ITV1 London, Monday 25 April 9:00pm - 11:00pm Paddy Considine is excellent as the decent, dogged and clever real-life Victorian detective Jack Whicher in a gripping adaptation of Kate Summerscale's bestseller. Whicher arrives from London in the Wiltshire village of Road to find a house in turmoil and distress; three-year-old Savile Kent has been snatched from his bed and found murdered, stuffed ignominiously down a miserable privy in the grounds of the Kent family home. The local policeman (Tom Georgeson, doing another whiskery Victorian turn - he's also in The Crimson Petal and the White) is mistrustful of this interloper from Great Scotland Yard and is keen to protect the Kents. But as Mr Whicher digs deep, he threatens the fragile gentility of a household riven by hypocrisy and hatred and ruled by an austere patriarch (Peter Capaldi). Of course the source material is impeccable; Summerscale's book is a finely tuned and superbly researched mystery, but writer Neil McKay keeps a tight hold on all of the original's essential elements.
Radio Times reviewer - Alison Graham
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Cast
* Mr Whicher - Paddy Considine
* Samuel Kent - Peter Capaldi
* Supt Foley - Tom Georgeson
* Dolly Williamson - William Beck
* Mary Kent - Emma Fielding
* Commissioner Mayne - Tim Pigott-Smith
* Elizabeth Gough - Kate O'Flynn
* Peter Edlin QC - Donald Sumpter
* Dr Stapleton - Ben Miles
* Constance Kent - Alexandra Roach
* William Kent - Charlie Hiett
* George Redman - Jay Simpson
* Sarah Cox - Sarah Ridgeway
* William Nutt - Ben Compton
* Emma Moody - Beth Cooke
* Henry Ludlow - Richard Lintern
* Harriet Gollop - Lizzie Hopley
* Mrs Holley - Katy Murphy
* Rev Wagner - Anthony Byrne
* Constable Urch - Anthony Hunt
* Holcombe - Peter Gordon
* Benger - Ruairi Conaghan
* Magistrate - Andrew Woodall
* MP - Julian Firth
Directed by: James Hawes
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