Starring Luke Evans (Clash of the Titans), Jack Roth (Bedlam) and Neil Maskell (Utopia), the opening film, ‘A Robber’s Tale’, began filming last month.

Chibnall exclusively told CultBox: “I really enjoyed doing United [Chibnall’s drama about Manchester United’s ‘Busby Babes’ and the aftermath of the Munich air disaster] and doing the social history – finding the drama in social history – and telling the detail of stories that you think you know in the back of your head in British history. It was the same thing with The Great Train Robbery.”

He added: “There are a lot of perspectives on both sides of the robbery that will surprise people. We’ve done a lot of forensic detail and research that you wouldn’t get in the folklore version. At its heart it’s a big morality tale, and to locate that in 1963… it’s a really interesting story and there’s some fantastically conflicting points of view and perspectives on it.”

The final episode of Broadchurch airs at 9pm tonight on ITV.

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