Season 1 • Episode 4
LatestThe reconstruction of Chris's murder threatens to traumatise Robert. But will it help solve the crime?
Julie Walters stars as a mother dealing with the impact of the sudden murder of her 21 year old son. Each episode follows her story and also focuses on specific characters whose lives are transformed by the event – the journalist who is covering the story; the Indian newsagent who used to sell the victim his fags; and the passerby who happened across his body.
Acting
Julie Walters at her most quietly devastating
Writing
Four perspectives, zero easy answers
Direction
Beeban Kidron's unsentimental British realism
Creator
Beeban Kidron
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of BBC's early 2000s 'social realist' boom alongside Clocking Off and The Street, this came when British TV was obsessed with working-class trauma as prestige content.
Paul Higgins later played the terrifying Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It—imagine THAT energy in your local newsroom covering a murder.
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