In Popular Culture
The story of John and Anne Darwin was dramatised in the BBC Four programme Canoe Man in 2010. The film starred Bernard Hill and Saskia Reeves as John and Anne Darwin respectively. In fiction, it also inspired a 2009 novel by Adrian Gere called Return from the Dead, and a 2010 storyline in the ITV1 soap opera Coronation Street saw the character Joe McIntyre attempt the same thing.
Read more about this topic: John Darwin Disappearance Case
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