Up the creek!
What's on TV|April 16, 2022
Eddie Marsan plays fraudster John Darwin who pretended to have drowned in a canoe accident…
IAN MACEWAN
Up the creek!

THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND THE CANOE

Easter Sunday-Wed, 9pm, ITV Drama

The story of John Darwin, the former teacher from Hartlepool who faked his own death in a canoeing accident and resurfaced years later in Panama, is truly stranger than fiction. Now it’s being retold in a four-part ITV drama starring Eddie Marsan and Monica Dolan playing scammer John and his complicit wife, Anne.

This story is from the April 16, 2022 edition of What's on TV.

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