9.060 minSeason 1 • Episode 3
LatestThe police investigation leads DI Mill in an unexpected direction.
Set on a single street in South London, Capital is a portrait of a road transformed by soaring property prices: what was once the home of modest lower-middle class families, Pepys Road has been continuously gentrified into a street of multimillion pound houses. On one day, the people of this South London street all receive an anonymous postcard with the simple message 'we want what you have'. Its unsettling ripples affect every corner of the community.
Acting
Toby Jones sweating through upper-class breakdown
Writing
Peter Bowker's razor-sharp class observations
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on John Lanchester's 2012 novel written during the financial crisis, capturing pre-Brexit London anxiety.
Pepys Road is fictional but based heavily on Clapham and Balham streets where house prices tripled in a decade.
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