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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Entertainment
Mark Jefferies

Makers behind canoe man John Darwin drama to dramatise rogue trader Nick Leeson's story

The story of how rogue trader Nick Leeson brought down Barings Bank is being turned into a TV drama by the makers of The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe.

Story Films, which was behind the hit ITV drama about canoe conman John Darwin, will now chart the rise and fall of banker Leeson in a four-part series.

The working title is The Man Who Broke the Bank.

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