Tragic true story behind ITV's A Cruel Love

A Cruel Love’s true story of Britain’s last executed woman will make you shudder – and sympathise
Was the last British woman to be executed a victim of misogyny and snobbery? ‘A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story’ makes her case
‘A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story,’ About the Last Woman Hanged in Britain, Started With an Email
Executive producers Kate Bartlett and Antonia Gordon of Silverprint Pictures took on the tale of an "obsessive relationship" that was "toxic and abusive," meaning "it was important to tell the full story.
ITV A Cruel Love: True tragedy of Ruth Ellis who shot her abusive lover dead
New ITV drama A Cruel Love retells the haunting story of Ruth Ellis - exploring her heartbreak and abuse that led to a fateful decision.
A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story – The tragic real life crime behind the ITV drama
A new ITV drama is set to reignite interest in the famous execution that shook post-war England and advanced the abolition of the death penalty
A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story TV review — the tragic case of Britain’s last executed woman
Ellis was hanged in 1955 for murdering her lover. An absorbing four-part ITV series re-examines her complex, truncated life
"Not for the faint-hearted”: why ITV’s tragic true crime drama A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story will shock you
A new true crime drama is coming to ITV - and it's not for the faint-hearted. In fact, we're betting the story behind A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story will shock you. The drama is set in 1950s London,
ITV’s A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story viewers ‘give up’ after episode 1 slamming annoying habit – did you spot it?
The Ruth Ellis Story say they’ve ‘given up’ watching after just one episode due to spotting an annoying habit on the series. ...
A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story on ITV review: a riveting portrayal of a monstrous miscarriage of justice
Ruth Ellis turned up at a pub in Hampstead and shot her lover, David Blakely, dead. Two months later, she was hanged for his ...
A Cruel Love viewers 'give up' as they 'struggle' just minutes into new ITV drama
Viewers of A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story were quick to highlight a problem just minutes into the new drama, confessing ...
What happened to Ruth Ellis's children after A Cruel Love?
Ruth Ellis had six grandchildren via her daughter, Georgina, two of which were closely involved with the production of A ...
A Cruel Love, review: Lucy Boynton’s Ruth Ellis is less criminal, more feminist hero
The Ruth Ellis Story revisits the famous crime, trial and hanging, fleshing out Ellis’s tragic past in the process ...
Lucy Boynton On ‘A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story’: ‘I Hope It Forces Us To Examine Our Judicial System And How It Treats Women’
Lucy Boynton discusses her intense and heartbreaking portrayal of Ruth Ellis, the last woman executed in Great Britain in ...
A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story fans are finding one major aspect 'unlikeable'
The Ruth Ellis Story has inspired a recurring complaint on social media after premiering on Wednesday, 5 March. Featuring ...
A Cruel Love viewers 'give up' on new drama just minutes in as they brand it 'confusing'
Viewers of A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story were quick to highlight a problem just minutes into the new drama, confessing ...
Jo Whiley - TV critic Emma Bullimore reviews Towards Zero, A Cruel Love and The Fear - BBC Sounds
Jo chats to Emma Bullimore about the TV you won’t want to miss.