Who Is the Real Alice Bell in Channel 4’s New Thriller?
Alex Roach stars in Hunting Alice Bell, a Channel 4 thriller about several women accused of being the same person. Find out when it starts.
Fran Da Silva’s life begins to unravel when an act of vandalism is followed by a rumour that she’s Alice Bell, a serial killer’s former accomplice believed to be living under a new identity.
Then Fran discovers that several other women are facing the same accusation. Alex Roach plays Fran in Hunting Alice Bell, a six-part thriller created by David Baddiel and film critic Peter Bradshaw.
The women join forces to clear their names, but a statement from the killer, Dr Jason Nash, gives them reason to wonder whether one of them is lying.
Simon Pegg plays Nash, with Amanda Abbington, Emily Barber and Ralf Little also among the cast. The women know how much damage a rumour can do, yet they still have to decide how much to tell one another and whose story to believe.
What inspired Hunting Alice Bell?
Baddiel took inspiration from a documentary about women wrongly identified as Maxine Carr after she was granted lifelong anonymity. The fictional drama takes that experience of mistaken identity and asks what happens when an accusation starts to look like proof simply because enough people repeat it.
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Where to watch
Hunting Alice Bell starts on Channel 4 at 9pm on Wednesday 11 November. The second episode follows at 9pm on Thursday 12 November.
