True crime: what goes on behind the scenes?
Since the success of the Serial podcast in the United States, UK broadcasters have been looking for a successful true crime formula here. Award-winning investigator and former police detective Mark Williams-Thomas tackles a cold case in The Investigator: A British Crime Story on ITV. We hear from Mark Williams-Thomas and also the executive producer of the BAFTA-winning Channel Four series The Murder Detectives, Neil Grant, on how they choose their cases and the production and ethical challenges involved when real tragedy becomes TV entertainment.
First broadcast on The Media Show, 14 July 2016.
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