Scooping a whole host of award nominations and wins for leads Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw, "A Very English Scandal" was a dramatisation of the events leading up to the Jeremy Thorpe scandal of 1979, which saw a politician accused of plotting the murder of an ex-lover in order to cover up his alleged homosexuality. Russell T. Davies, the man responsible for bringing Doctor Who back to our screens, wrote the script, while "The Queen's" Stephen Frears directed.