A lot of eyes will be on The Hack , Adolescence writer Jack Thorne’s urgent retelling of the phone-hacking scandal – not least because it digs into the real and extensive details of a story Rupert Murdoch will have hoped to shut down when he closed the News of the World in 2011.

We see these scandals from the corner of our eye, they briefly distract us and then the news cycle moves on. But The Hack draws us back to a story we only half know – and the truth is a lot worse than those half-glimpsed headlines suggest.

The first episode gets off to a pacy start. David Tennant brilliantly embodies Nick Davies, the journalist who drove The Guardian ’s investigation into phone hacking, as he follows an anonymous tip-off and meets the mysterious Mr Apollo (Adrian Lester), who

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