THE WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION

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By ANDRE PAINE

If you thought 2015’s And Then There Were None was a deliciously dark Agatha Christie adaptation, that was a just a primer for the bleakly compelling The Witness For The Prosecution. Produced by the same team, including writer Sarah Phelps, both of the brutal BBC miniseries shatter any preconceptions of Christie cosiness. For the two-part Witness, Phelps has augmented the original short story with a convincing First World War background. And where Christie gave us a sting in the tail, this goes even further with a genuinely shocking finale. A romantic prelude to the legal drama takes place in the trenches in Belgium – an unlikely place for a couple to fall in love. Several years later, in 1923, Austrian showgirl Romaine Heilger (Andrea Riseborough) and English chancer Leonard Vole…

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