Disappearing act

Keeley Hawes and Matthew Macfadyen star in the bizarre true-life story of MP John Stonehouse

NEW DRAMA

Stonehouse

Holiday Monday 2-Wed 4 January, 9pm, ITV1(box set, ITVX)

MP John Stonehouse famously faked his own death by leaving a pile of clothes on a Miami beach in 1974, before being tracked down in Australia, living under an assumed name.

Now, his bizarre story – which takes in infidelity, alleged espionage and fraud – is being told in a three-part drama starring married actors Matthew Macfadyen and Keeley Hawes as Stonehouse and his wife Barbara.