Neil McKay

The life and times of British politician Mo Mowlam, the darling of the Northern Ireland peace process and one of the foremost members of the New Labour movement, as she struggles with political strife and a life-threatening brain tumour.

In 1860 Scotland Yard's 'Prince of Sleuths' Jack Whicher is sent to rural Wiltshire to investigate the murder of three-year-old Saville Kent, snatched from his bed at night and killed. (imdb)

Dramatisation of the case of serial killers Fred and Rose West, focusing on the way in which they were brought to justice. (imdb)

Whicher,retired from the police after his failure to solve the Road Hill House case,encounters Susan Spencer in a rough tavern,seeking her niece Mary,who came to London to find Stephen Gann,father of her baby. Soon afterwards Mary is found slain and the child missing and Whicher offers to help Susan find the killer. The baby is located at a home for unwed mothers,run by Reverend Marlow,who believes Mary went after Stephen,who rejected her. Whicher learns that Stephen's father was hung for murder (imdb)

A two-part drama about the search in 2008 for missing Yorkshire schoolgirl Shannon Matthews. (imdb)

A dramatised documentary about the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in May 1940. (imdb)

Jan, a cleaner and bartender, decides to breed a race horse in her Welsh village. As the horse rises through the ranks, Jan and the townspeople are pitted against the racing elite in a race for the national championship. (imdb)

In the early days of criminal investigation, before guilt and innocence were determined by forensic science, there was a detective, "a man of mystery", with an uncanny ability to read the human character and an unswerving instinct for the truth. In Victorian England, justice depended on The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. (amazon.com)