Historical drama
Humbug Billy
A batch of arsenic-contaminated sweets brings disaster to Bradford, exposing a chain of failures that binds ordinary lives to a public tragedy.
- Format
- Film / television: enquiries welcome
- Setting
- Bradford, 1858
- Project status
- Screenwriting project
- Rights
- Please enquire
Project overview
A screen project connected to The Bradford Poisonings.
The story follows the people behind the event, tracing the decisions, errors and human relationships that make the consequences matter.
Materials & collaboration
For the current screenplay, proposed duration or episode structure, and a discussion of the project’s development, please contact John directly.
Full scripts and detailed treatments are not published on this site.
The underlying work
The Bradford Poisonings
The story of the Bradford arsenic-poisoned sweets tragedy and the people caught in its chain of consequences.
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