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Anybody's Nightmare is a British television crime drama film, based on the true story of the imprisonment of Sheila Bowler, that broadcast on ITV on 7 October 2001. The film starred Patricia Routledge as Bowler, a 62-year-old music teacher who was wrongly arrested, tried and convicted for the murder of her husband's 89-year-old aunt Florence Jackson in 1993 after she drowned in the River Brede in East Sussex in 1992. The film chronicles the investigation, trial and the subsequent four years of Sheila's sentence in Holloway and Bullwood Prison before her successful appeal in 1998.
Original Release
09/28/2001
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Patricia Routledge | Sheila Bowler |
| Nicola Redmond | Angela Devlin |
| Georgina Sutcliffe | Jane Bowler |
| Thomas Arnold | Simon Bowler |
| William Armstrong | Jeremy Roberts QC |
| Malcolm Sinclair | Nicholas Purnell QC |
| Louisa Milwood-Haigh | WDS Booth |
| Scott Baker | DS Renno |
| Philip Dunbar | Mr. Justice Garland |
| Peter Halliday | Lord Justice Swinton Thomas |
Directors
Writers
John Flanagan, Andrew McCulloch, Angela Devlin, Tim Devlin
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Patricia Routledge | Sheila Bowler |
| Nicola Redmond | Angela Devlin |
| Georgina Sutcliffe | Jane Bowler |
| Thomas Arnold | Simon Bowler |
| William Armstrong | Jeremy Roberts QC |
| Malcolm Sinclair | Nicholas Purnell QC |
| Louisa Milwood-Haigh | WDS Booth |
| Scott Baker | DS Renno |
| Philip Dunbar | Mr. Justice Garland |
| Peter Halliday | Lord Justice Swinton Thomas |
| Michael Culver | Lord Chief Justice Bingham |
| Clifford Rose | Mr. Justice Wright |
| Bill Thomas | John Soan |
| Albert Welling | Ewen Smith |
| Tom Espiner | Russell Parkes |
| Nicholas Hutchison | Gordon Pollock QC |
| Anne Carroll | Valerie Nye |
| Valerie Lilley | Mrs. Dobson |
| Catherine Terris | Anne Wood |
| Joseph Crilly | Male Warder |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Sharon Bloom | Executive Producer |
| Ken Baker | Producer |
| Stephen Smallwood | Producer |
