Plot
A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Edith Graydon married her boyfriend Percy Thomson. He survives the war but theirs is not a happy marriage. She doesn't really love him and he feels it every day. He's also possessive and their daily life is a constant battle. She meets and falls in love with Frederick Bywaters, her sister's one-time boyfriend. They have a long affair and her desperate attempts to get either a formal separation of divorce from her husband falls on deaf ears. They are at their wits end and Bywaters decides to do something about it. On a dark evening when Edith is walking with her husband, Bywaters stabs him to death. Edith is charged with murder along with Bywaters and both are found guilty. She claims her innocence right up until the day they are both executed by hanging in 1923. Based on a true story.
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Cast
Natasha Little
Edith Jessie Thompson
Nick Moran
Percy Thompson
Ioan Gruffudd
Frederick Edward Francis Bywaters
Imelda Staunton
Ethel Graydon
Tom Wilkinson
Mr. Carlton
Rachael Stirling
Avis Graydon
Diana Coupland
Mrs. Lester
Michael Bertenshaw
William Graydon
Daniel Brocklebank
Newnie
Elizabeth McKechnie
Mrs. Thompson
Judy Clifton
Nora Lester
Simon Paris
Sgt. Mew
Alex Potter
Young Billy
Anton Gregory
Young Harold
Rikki Doughty
Young Freddie
Juliet Forester
Miss Prior
Helen Brampton
Lily Thompson
Angela Hart
Nun
Karen Powell
Nun
Daniel Goode
Kenneth
Gyuri Sarossy
Archie
Arthur Gerard
Mr Lester
Barbara Wilshere
Mr Carlton's Whore
Nicholas Hutchison
Dr Maudsley
Alan Leith
Inspector Hall
Michael Sheard
Mr. Justice Shearman
Bruce Purchase
Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett
John Tordoff
John Ellis
Richard Mayes
Prison Chaplain
