Up the creek!

Eddie Marsan plays fraudster John Darwin who pretended to have drowned in a canoe accident…

- IAN MACEWAN

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.