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What time is The Salisbury Poisonings on BBC One tonight?
A CHILLING three part drama series telling the true story of the 2018 Salisbury nerve agent attack continues tonight (Tuesday, June 16).
With an all-star cast, The Salisbury Poisonings on BBC One portrays the events surrounding the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal, a former Russian agent, and his daughter Yulia.
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What time is The Salisbury Poisonings on BBC One tonight?
The three-part TV series telling the story of the 2018 Salisbury poisonings continues on BBC One on TONIGHT (Tuesday, June 16) at 9pm.
The hour-long episodes are being shown across three consecutive nights, having started on June 14.
All three episodes will also be available to watch on after they have been shown on TV.
The show features an impressive cast, including a host of British stars such as Sex Education actress Anne-Marie Duff, Downtown Abbey's MyAnna Buring and Game of Thrones actor Mark Addy.
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What is The Salisbury Poisonings about?
The BBC dramatisation is based on the true story of the 2018 Novichok poisonings in Salisbury.
Ex Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were targeted in a nerve agent attack that saw them hospitalised.
Both were left in a critical condition, but managed to survive the poisoning.
A local woman Dawn Sturgess, tragically died after becoming contaminated through a perfume bottle and the policeman trying to solve the case, DS Nick Bailey, became critically ill too.
The British government blamed Russia for the poisonings.
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The official synopsis reads: “The drama tells the remarkable story of how ordinary people and public services reacted to a crisis on their doorstep, displaying extraordinary heroism as their city became the focus of an unprecedented national emergency.”
It adds: "The Salisbury Poisonings is not always an easy watch.
"It deals with real trauma, experienced by real people, not very long ago. So why show it now?
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"Because it is a story of people coming together in remarkable ways, finding strength in family and community.
"It’s a story that reflects the internal reality of an emergency public health response, with all of its critical decisions.
"But perhaps most of all, because it reflects a kind of heroism that we have all come to recognise recently. "
The third episode of the three-part series will air on BBC One at 9pm on June 16.
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