Miniseries · Channel 4
Salisbury Poisonings: The Untold Story
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TV DNA
How Salisbury Poisonings: The Untold Story actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Salisbury Poisonings: The Untold Story reads strongest on Serialized, Tension and Cliffhanger Intensity.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The story
What it's about
Telling the story of the 2018 poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the quiet city of Salisbury, an incident that sent shockwaves across the globe. Just months later, British mother of three Dawn Sturgess died accidentally after coming into contact with Novichok, the nerve agent used in the original attack.
With gripping first-hand testimony, the shocking story of the 2018 poisoning of an ex-Russian spy in Salisbury. Featuring unparalleled access to police, doctors, government officials and the military.
Behind the series
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Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Sophie WrightProducer
- Samantha AnstissExecutive Producer
- James W NewtonExecutive Producer
Direction
- Sophie WrightDirector
Cinematography
- Will PughDirector of Photography
Music
- Vincent WattsOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
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