The Shipman Files: A Very British Crime Story

The Shipman Files: A Very British Crime Story (2020)

EndedDocumentary showCrime

Chris Wilson re-examines the case of GP Harold Shipman, who in 2000 was found guilty of the murder of 15 people, with the total number of his victims thought to run in to the hundreds.

Meeting the people most intimately connected to the case, personally and professionally, he will explore how attitudes to the elderly enabled a respected doctor to get away with the murder of hundreds of patients.

Network
Scheduleevery Monday at 21:00 (60 min)

Last Episode

Episode 3
Season 1Episode 360 min

Episode 3

The final edition opens by looking at the first report of the public inquiry into the deaths of Harold Shipman's patients, concluding that while working as a GP he had murdered 260 of them. Chris Wilson explores the reaction to the staggering total, exploring how attention began to focus on the killer as experts and commentators came up with a range of psychological profiles and theories to try to understand why one, seemingly ordinary doctor had killed so many people.

Sep 28, 2020

Recent Episodes

EpisodeNameAirdate
S01E03Episode 3Sep 28, 2020
S01E02Episode 2Sep 28, 2020
S01E01Episode 1Sep 28, 2020
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