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
Henry Pepys Henry Pepys Henry Pepys (18 April 1783 – 13 November 1860) was the Church of England Bishop of Worcester in 1841–60. He gave generously to the Three Choirs Festival, held in Worcester every third year. Pepys was born in Wimpole Street, London, the son of Sir William Weller Pepys (1740/41–1825), a master in Chancery, descended from John Pepys, of Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, the great-uncle of Samuel Pepys the diarist. He was the younger brother of Charles Christopher Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1804, and then migrated as a fellow to St.