Killed By My Debt (w/t)
Following the award winning success of powerful factual dramas Murdered By My Father and Murdered For Being Different on BBC Three, new single drama Killed By My Debt continues that tradition. This is a devastating examination of the damage wrought on one family by ultra-low wages, the drama tells the true story of a young zero hours worker from South London whose whole family earns a low income wage. He earns between £39 and £89 per week, and when he picks up two traffic fines at work, totalling £130, he can’t pay them. In the hands of debt collectors, his debt rises to more than £1000. He desperately takes out payday loans, but they aren’t enough to cover his escalating debt. Faced with a bailiff waiting outside his house for hours on end, what lengths will he go to escape his debts?
Killed By My Debt is a 1×60 factual drama Commissioned by Clare Sillery and Damian Kavanagh for BBC Three, produced by BBC Studios’ Documentary Unit and directed by multi award winning director Joseph Bullman. (BBC)
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