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 television drama VHF transmission signals would act as a guiding beacon for German bombers targeting central London, and the technicians and engineers of the service would in any case be needed for war efforts such as the radar programme. BBC Television resumed broadcasting on 7 June 1946, and the service began in much the same way it had ceased in 1939, with many of the 1930s drama producers returning. In 1949 there was a major development in drama when Val Gielgud was made the new head of department, a position he had previously and successfully occupied at BBC Radio. Since producing the