Out of his depth

Eddie Marsan plays ‘canoe man’ con artist John Darwin in a real-life drama

- CAREN CLARK, HANNAH DAVIES, TESS LAMACRAFT, IAN MACEWAN, RICHARD MCCLURE

NEW DRAMA

The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe

Easter Sunday-Wednesday, 9pm, ITV

The story of John Darwin, the former teacher from Hartlepool who faked his own death to claim on his life insurance, is truly stranger than fiction.

Now his outlandish and ill-fated plan is being retold in a four-part ITV drama, starring Eddie Marsan as John and Monica Dolan as his wife, Anne.

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