‘Get your trousers on, you’re nicked!’
John Thaw’s hard-drinking, rule-bending detective Jack Regan was a 70s TV icon - and amazingly, he was inspired by a real policeman. Acclaimed scriptwriter Ian Kennedy Martin gives Stephen Wright the ...
25 Feb 202127min
A very British witch-hunt - Part 6
To this day, no individual or organisation has been truly held to account over the disastrous errors of judgement that led to a 'witch hunt' against powerful figures including Lord Brittan, accused of...
14 Feb 202131min
A very British witch-hunt - Part 5
In an extraordinary press conference, former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor tackled the absurd allegations of VIP paedophile liar Carl Beech, saying, 'I am a homosexual - not a murderer or a paedophil...
13 Feb 202140min
A very British witch-hunt - Part 4
Police showed up with a search warrant at the former home of distinguished ex-Home Secretary Leon Brittan, just weeks after his death from cancer - and officers took away diaries, computers and phones...
12 Feb 202118min
A very British witch-hunt - Part 2
Painfully thin and wasted after weeks in an intensive care unit, former Home Secretary Lord Brittan had just weeks to live when Detective Superintendent Kenny McDonald said that his team had spoken to...
10 Feb 202131min
A very British witch-hunt - Part 1
Lord Brittan had led a long and distinguished public life, including serving as Home Secretary under Margaret Thatcher - but as he lay desperately ill in hospital with terminal cancer, he was swept up...
9 Feb 202132min
Rose West: Defending a Monster - Part 2
It was billed as the 'Trial of the Decade', with Rosemary West’s husband Fred 'returning from the grave' in sickening police interviews as the mother-of-eight stood trial for the torture and murder of...
9 Feb 202134min
