The Sixth Commandment

6.8 (52 votes)• 2023• 57m•Ended

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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.

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Languages: English

Director: Saul Dibb

Starring Cast: Timothy Spall, Anne Reid, Éanna Hardwicke, Annabel Scholey, Anna Crilly, Jonathan Aris

Cast

Timothy Spall

Peter Farquhar

Anne Reid

Ann Moore-Martin

Éanna Hardwicke

Ben Field

Annabel Scholey

Ann-Marie Blake

Anna Crilly

Natalie Golding

Jonathan Aris

DCI Mark Glover

Peter Sullivan

David Jeremy

Ben Bailey Smith

Simon Blake

Sheila Hancock

Elizabeth Zettl

Adrian Rawlins

Ian Farquhar

Amanda Root

Sue Farquhar

Conor MacNeill

Martyn Smith

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