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'Hard to watch': a play about Harold Shipman by the grandson of one of his victims

by Harriet Sherwood Arts, Culture Correspondent

Edwin Flay brings his one-man drama, in which he plays the GP and serial killer, to the Edinburgh fringe He was a big man with a bushy beard and a bowl of sweets on his desk for good boys and girls. This is all Edwin Flay remembers about Harold Shipman, whose surgery in Hyde he visited as a small child in the 1970s. The GP later became the UK's most persistent serial killer, ending the life of about 250 of his patien…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:25am on July 12, 2023