Dónal Finn is the legendary highway robber in Turpin, a brand-new historical audio drama from Big Finish Productions, beginning in July
We’ve all heard the tales of the dashing highwayman – the polished myths and pantomime bravado – but what really happened?

What is new series Turpin: Essex Pistols about

Impatient butcher Richard Turpin wants his share of the emerging wealth of the new United Kingdom. After poaching for easy profits, he finds himself on the run and falls in with the vicious Gregory Gang. As his comrades are sent to the gallows, he evades the hangman and becomes the country’s most wanted man.

Dónal Finn (currently killing it in Guy Ritchie’s blockbusting new Young Sherlock series on Prime Video) stars as Richard Turpin, who abandons his stable life as a butcher to become a violent outlaw. England’s eighteenth-century folk antihero finds the money and notoriety he always dreamed of but discovers that this life of excess and risk-taking is a very dangerous path.

This gritty, visceral and darkly funny take on the legend also features Jemima Rooper (Geek Girl, Atlantis) as Turpin’s sharp-witted wife Betty, and Greg Wise (Sense and Sensibility, The Buccaneers) as Captain Tom King, an elegant thief. Harry Myers voices the dogged lawman Mason, and Richard Goulding is James Smith, Turpin’s law-abiding former friend.