Script for 4 part TV drama - ‘GORGEOUS GREY-HAIRED WIDOWER’

Amanda Goodman

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Picture this – your millionaire husband drowns in front of you on a beach in Barbados. How do you cope with the horror, the absurdity of losing your soul-mate while you stand there in your new bikini? 

 You go online. Within weeks you fall for Gorgeous Grey Haired Widower. You’re a clever woman, a successful author, but soon you’re forking out a million pounds on a house with a pool and planning your wedding. But he’s plotting your funeral.

 When you go missing there’s no evidence of foul play. Until a chance remark by a neighbour months later leads the police to your foul grave. He even murdered your dog!

 But is your mild-mannered, overweight and bumbling fiance really a cold-blooded psychopath? Did he spend years planning to steal your fortune, to poison you slowly so you felt you were losing your mind? And why did his first wife die so suddenly?

 This is the true life story of one of Britain’s most unlikely romance scammers and serial killers, who nearly gets away with the perfect murder and a large fortune – twice!

Amanda Goodman is a graduate from Oxford University who became a BBC television news trainee and main presenter on BBC 1 for thirty years. She launched Cambridge’s flagship Look East programme and her documentary “Kindness of a Stranger” based on her exclusive story won two Royal Television Society Awards. After studying creative writing, and then theology at Cambridge University, Amanda was awarded a Royal Literary Fund grant to write her first novel.  She adores crime drama and is working on a screenplay of a sensational news story she covered as a reporter. During the pandemic she gave up the buzz of journalism to become a hospital chaplain, ministering  on the front-line 24/7 to patients dying of covid.