PARTNERS in crime

Jodie Whittaker and Suranne Jones are con artists taking on one last heist in Spain

- WORDS SEAN MARLAND

Two of Britain's biggest TV stars team up to carry out an audacious art heist in ITV1's six-part crime caper Frauds. Gentleman Jack’s Suranne Jones, who co-created the series, and Doctor Who's Jodie Whittaker play old friends and con artists Bert and Sam, who join forces when Bert is released from a 10-year stretch in a Spanish prison after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.

The con woman is determined to go out with a bang, and begs her old pal Sam to help pull off one last job - stealing a priceless Salvador Dalí painting from a Madrid museum.

Sam has tried to tread a different path since the friends parted ways a decade ago, but she finds herself helping Bert assemble a ragtag team of misfits - including fixer Celine (Kate Fleetwood), magician's assistant Jackie (Elizabeth Berrington) and expert forger Bilal (Karan Gill) - to break into the museum to carry out the theft.

We met up with Jones, 47, and Whittaker, 43, to hear more...

JODIE WHITTAKER ON PLAYING SAM