Arthur & George (TV series)
| Arthur & George | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama |
| Based on | Arthur & George by Julian Barnes |
| Written by | Ed Whitmore |
| Starring | |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 3 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes (inc. adverts) |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV, STV, UTV |
| Release | 2 March – 16 March 2015 |
Arthur & George is a three-part British television drama based on the book of the same name by Julian Barnes, based in turn on the real-life Great Wyrley Outrages. The first episode aired on 2 March 2015 on ITV. It stars Martin Clunes as Arthur Conan Doyle.[1]
Cast
- Martin Clunes as Arthur Conan Doyle
- Arsher Ali as George Edalji
- Charles Edwards as Alfred Wood (Edwards played Doyle in the 2001 series Murder Rooms)
- Art Malik as Reverend Shapurji Edalji
- Emma Fielding as Charlotte Edalji
Fictions
While the source book is not intended to be strictly historically accurate, the TV series contains additional inventions, such as the murder of a blacksmith and the death of a dog walker at the fictional Rugely Falls. Conan Doyle's chief suspect, Royden Sharp, is represented but, to provide a tidy conclusion to the drama, his suicide is invented.
Contrary to some of the fictions depicted in the series, a non-fictional documentary source has been discovered which might have swayed Doyle had it been available to him. Eighty years after Edalji's release, a June 1907 memo by then Home Secretary Herbert Gladstone was discovered which revealed that Gladstone had been privately told by one of the lawyers who had represented Edalji of suppressing as damaging to the defence's case, a letter by Edalji which his brother, Horace, had brought as a specimen of Edalji's handwriting. That letter expressed obscenities and other content similar to ones Edalji was accused of sending. When the 1907 letters started, the lawyer's colleague remarked "He is at it again".[2]
Production
The production filmed sections of episodes two and three in Kent. The Chatham Historic Dockyard was used to film London street scenes, including the outside of the Metropolitan Police station, George Edalji's lodgings and the night sequence in which Sir Arthur secretly follows George Edalji.[3]
Ratings
| Episode | Ratings (in millions) Sourced by BARB |
|---|---|
| 6.29 | |
| 4.32 | |
| 3.91 |
References
- ^ Stephenson, David Martin Clunes: 'Everything becomes difficult at my age' The Sunday Express, 1 March 2015. Accessed 8 July 2015
- ^ Risinger D. Michael "Boxes in Boxes: Julian Barnes, Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and the Edalji Case". International Commentary on Evidence, Volume 4, Issue 2 (2006) Article 3, pp.86-87. Accessed 8 July 2015
- ^ Kent Film Office. "Kent Film Office Arthur & George Article".
External links
- Arthur & George at IMDb
- Conan Doyle, Arthur. The Case of Mr George Edalji at Project Gutenberg Australia. Accessed 8 July 2015
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