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The Sixth Commandment( 2023)

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Overview

A series that dramatises the shocking story of the true-life murder of former Stowe schoolmaster and deeply closeted evangelical Christian, 69-year-old Peter Farquhar by his 28-year-old student and young churchwarden Ben Field in October 2015.

  1. Sarah Phelps

    Creator

Series Cast

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    Timothy Spall

    Peter Farquhar

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    Anne Reid

    Ann Moore-Martin

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    Éanna Hardwicke

    Ben Field

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    Annabel Scholey

    Ann-Marie Blake

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    Anna Crilly

    Natalie Golding

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    Jonathan Aris

    DCI Mark Glover

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    Peter Sullivan

    David Jeremy

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    Ben Bailey Smith

    Simon Blake

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    Sheila Hancock

    Elizabeth Zettl

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    Adrian Rawlins

    Ian Farquhar

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    Amanda Root

    Sue Farquhar

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    Conor MacNeill

    Martyn Smith

Current Season

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Season 1

2023 | 4 Episodes

Season 1 of The Sixth Commandment premiered on Jul 17 2023

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A review by Peter McGinn

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Written by Peter McGinn on Sun Jul 30 2023
I have pretty much stopped watching these British dramas based on real murder cases because, even though they are all separate cases, these investigations seem to often cover the same story arc. So they have little room for imaginative storytelling or structure. I decided to watch this show, however, because I really like Timothy Spall and Anne Reid, him all the way from his Mike Leigh films and her from her Coronation Street role decades ago. They also seem to only pick good productions to appear in. They were both excellent in this miniseries, Spall perhaps award-worthy in fact. Their and ...

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Facts

Status

Ended

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Type

Miniseries

Original Language

English

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