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Crime Writers: 5: Police Story

BBC One
on BBC One London

Six programmes telling the story of crime fiction from Poe to the present.

Commentary by Julian Symons
with Lord Willis, Elwyn Jones, Troy Kennedy Martin, Ian Kennedy Martin, Gordon Newman
How writers like Ed McBain in America and John Creasey in England developed the 'police procedural' story; how police series became the mainstay of crime fiction on television; and how they evolved in Britain from Dixon of Dock Green to Law and Order.

Contributors

Commentary:
Julian Symons
Interviewee:
Lord Willis
Interviewee:
Elwyn Jones
Interviewee:
Troy Kennedy Martin
Interviewee:
Ian Kennedy Martin
Interviewee:
Gordon Newman
Film Editor:
Mike Pavett
Producer:
Bernard Adams
Source: Radio Times

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