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
Samuel Pepys Nighy, and in the 2010s it was serialised as part of the "Woman's Hour" radio magazine programme. One audiobook edition of Pepys' diary selections is narrated by Kenneth Branagh. A fictionalised Pepys narrates the second chapter of Harry Turtledove's science fiction novel "A Different Flesh" (serialised 1985–1988, book form 1988). This chapter is entitled "And So to Bed" and written in the form of entries from the Pepys diary. The entries detail Pepys' encounter with American "Homo erectus" specimens (imported to London as beasts of burden) and his formation of the "transformational theory of life," thus causing evolutionary theory to