Journalist and broadcaster Ludovic Kennedy plays a newsreader in " The Lonely House". At this time, he was a newsreader for Independent Television News, but himself went on to investigate real-life crimes such as the Lindbergh kidnapping and the Derek Bentley case. Kennedy's re-examination of the murder conviction of Timothy Evans in his 1961 book "Ten Rillington Place" was particularly noteworthy in the movement to abolish the death penalty in the United Kingdom.