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was moderately positive, describing it as, 'decent enough drama, if not quite as great as its title would like it to be, and it is lifted by a fine cast, particularly Charles Dance as the sinister intelligence officer Lord Denton.'
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The storyline includes events that are not recorded from the real fire. The fire was shown as starting when Farriner's daughter left the oven's stoke-hatch open and the fire ejected a hot
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and was suffering financial difficulties as a result of the Navy persistently delaying payment. It also follows a sub-plot in which there is a suspected Catholic plot to kill
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which ignited loose straw on the wooden floor. It suggests Farriner had a contract to supply baked goods to the
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The series portrays events from the point of view of the Farriner family, in whose bakery on
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the fire started, and from the point of view of the royal court in responding to the fire.
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also praised the cast, but said the series lacked suspense.
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from 16 October to 6 November 2014. It is set during the
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was used to film some of the London street scenes and
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as Sarah, Thomas Farriner's (fictional) sister-in-law
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Index

The Great Fire (miniseries)
Drama
Tom Bradby
Jon Jones
Andrew Buchan
Rose Leslie
Jack Huston
Daniel Mays
Perdita Weeks
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Charles Dance
Nicholas Blane
Andrew Tiernan
Dan Jones
Douglas Rae
Ecosse Films
ITV
ITV
Great Fire of London
Tom Bradby
Ecosse Films
commercial breaks
Pudding Lane
ember
Royal Navy
King Charles II
Andrew Buchan
Thomas Farriner
Rose Leslie
Jack Huston

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