When a polluted river sparks a decade-long investigation, a journalist and two whistleblowers expose one of the biggest corporate and regulatory scandals in modern British history.
Season 1: 3 x 60’
Based on a decade-long investigation into England’s water companies and telling the real stories of whistleblowers and victims who believe their lives have been destroyed after encountering sewage polluted water, Dirty Business is a major new factual drama investigating one of the biggest potential corporate scandals in British history.
Dirty Business follows the story of two unlikely detectives, who notice that the fish in the river running through their idyllic Oxfordshire hamlet are dying. They contact their water company to find out why, and the company’s strange and evasive reply sparks an investigation that remains ongoing to this day.
Ash Smith
David Thewlis
(Sherlock and Daughter, Landscapers, Fargo, Naked)
Peter Hammond
Jason Watkins
(The Game, McDonald and Dodds, The Catch)
Julie Preen
Posy Sterling
(Playing Nice, Lollipop)
Mark Preen
Tom McKay
(Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Senna, Ellis)
Sophie Harrison