The Ruth Ellis Files: A Very British Crime Story
BBC FOUR, 9.00PM
This interesting, provocative three-parter sees American documentary maker Gillian Pachter attempt to uncover the truth about Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK. She does this with a mix of dogged reporting (combing archives, looking at witness statements) and some pretty dubious re-enactments (the scenes where her friend’s son reads Ellis’s son’s statements are particularly uncomfortable). It continues on Wednesday and Thursday. SH