EXCLUSIVE: A Broadmoor hospital doc featuring “brand-new testimony from ex-patients and ex-staff” is in the works at Paramount UK network Channel 5.
Inside Broadmoor [working title] will feature interviews, archive and stylised reconstruction revealing stories about one of the nation’s oldest and highest security psychiatric hospitals.
The institution in Berkshire was built in 1863, at which point it was called Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, and it has gained notoriety down the years and housed high-profile patients including Charles Bronson and Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper.
The late Jimmy Savile, who was posthumously outed as a serial sexual abuser, was later accused of abuse while doing voluntary work at Broadmoor.
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