Honour stars Keeley Hawes as a police officer investigating a 2006 murder in the London Iraqi Kurd community. But does it focus too closely on the police, and not the victim?
With a track record in writing fact-based drama – including the award-winning sex trafficking drama Doing Money, which aired on the BBC in 2018 – Gwyneth Hughes is used to doing research. But her key source for Honour, an ITV two-parter that goes out next week, raised unusual issues.
“I can’t call her because I don’t have her number, and don’t know what her name is now,” Hughes explains. “So I had to wait for her to call me. I always kept a notebook by the phone in case she suddenly rang.”
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