Matthew Rhys to Star as Harry Evans in BBC Drama Dragon Slayers

Matthew Rhys, the Emmy-winning star of The Americans, will lead the cast of Dragon Slayers, a new six-part BBC factual drama chronicling the investigative exploits of Sir Harry Evans, the former editor of The Sunday Times.

The series, set in the 1970s, centers on Evans and his Insight team, renowned for challenging powerful corporations, the legal establishment and government institutions to uncover hidden truths for the newspaper's readers. Their landmark investigations included advocating for Thalidomide victims by exposing cover-ups that had obscured the scandal, revealing the causes behind the DC-10 crash, then the world's deadliest aviation disaster, and confronting treason charges to unmask Kim Philby as one of the 20th century's most successful spies. Evans, who died in 2020 at age 92, edited The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981.

Written by Bafta-winning screenwriter Peter Bowker, known for The A Word and Marvellous, the drama draws from extensive research, published accounts and interviews with those close to Evans, including his widow, editor and journalist Tina Brown, and his family. It will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, produced by AC Chapter One with Universal...