Launching on BritBox hot from British screens and starring real-life husband-and-wife Matthew Macfadyen (Succession, Pride and Prejudice) and Keeley Hawes (Line of Duty, Bodyguard, The Durrells),
Stonehouse (BritBox Original) *** Express from the UK ***
Limited series
Tuesday 17 January 2023
A three-part drama based on the extraordinary rise and fall of UK MP John Stonehouse.
As a high-flying member of Harold Wilson’s Labour government and a seemingly devoted family man, Stonehouse’s perfect life spirals out of control in the early 1970s amid rumours of fraud and espionage.
It turns out that while Stonehouse (Emmy Award winner Matthew Macfadyen – Succession, Pride and Prejudice, Spooks) has been climbing the political ladder, he’s also been forging secret relationships – with his secretary Sheila Buckley (Emer Heatley – Showtrial) and shadowy figures in Prague – that will threaten him personally and professionally.
As the drama unfolds, suspicion from his wife Barbara Stonehouse(Keeley Hawes – Crossfire, Bodyguard, Spooks) and the media grows. Stonehouse embarks on an outlandish escape plan that will lead him to Miami, Melbourne and eventually – hand-in-hand with Sheila – the dock of London’s highest criminal court.
All this, while Prime Minister Wilson’s (Kevin McNally – The Crown, Unforgotten, Pirates of the Caribbean) slender majority hangs in the balance.
Written by John Preston (The Dig, A Very English Scandal) and landing on BritBox express from British screens, Stonehouse is a story inspired by sensational true events, that explores the price of ambition, the pressures of politics and how attitudes towards mental health have changed in the last 50 years.
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