Capital (UK TV series) Capital (UK TV series) Capital is a three-part British television adaptation of John Lanchester’s novel "Capital". The series was written by Peter Bowker, directed by Euros Lyn and produced by Matt Strevens for Kudos Film & Television Company. The first episode was broadcast on BBC One on 24 November 2015. The story centres on a fictional Pepys Road in South London (although there are two actual Pepys Roads in South London - namely in Raynes Park and New Cross) and the lives of people with connections to it. Once an ordinary residential area, the value of each house in the
BBC London itself, it has for much of the BBC's life had to offer coverage of other parts of the Home Counties as well. There were many incarnations of regional news programmes in this area before the current programme was introduced in 2001. These included the London segment of the "Nationwide" from Lime Grove Studios; in this case, the regional presenters for London were also usually the main presenters of the national sequence of the programme which followed. Other identities for the London area coverage were "London Plus", and finally "Newsroom South East". Originally, the BBC London and the South East region