BBC One
10.35pm
Thursday 29th July
When Englishman Raymond Scott walked into a library in Washington D.C. two years ago carrying a stolen Shakespeare book, he never thought he’d be at the centre of a drama worthy of the Bard himself.
What followed is an extraordinary tale involving an eccentric playboy, the world’s most eminent Shakespearean scholars, the FBI, an exotic Cuban dancer, a former bodyguard of Fidel Castro and two stoic detectives from Durham CID.