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The Sixth Commandment

A series that dramatises the shocking story of the true-life murder of former Stowe schoolmaster and deeply closeted evangelical Christian, 69-year-old Peter Farquhar by his 28-year-old student and young churchwarden Ben Field in October 2015.

2023 |1 Season  | 57m |  Crime, Drama

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Cast

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Timothy Spall

Peter Farquhar

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Anne Reid

Ann Moore-Martin

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Éanna Hardwicke

Ben Field

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Annabel Scholey

Ann-Marie Blake

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Anna Crilly

Natalie Golding

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Jonathan Aris

DCI Mark Glover

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Peter Sullivan

David Jeremy

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Ben Bailey Smith

Simon Blake

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Sheila Hancock

Elizabeth Zettl

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Adrian Rawlins

Ian Farquhar

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Amanda Root

Sue Farquhar

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Conor MacNeill

Martyn Smith

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Creator

Sarah Phelps

Status

Ended

Languages

English

Network

BBC One