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Six months after the Ripper's reign, Whitechapel police fight to bring law to the lawless.

The Whitechapel police fight to bring law to the lawless in the wake of Jack the Ripper's reign of terror.

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The BBC West region started on 1st September 1957 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One West.

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Ripper Street: Series 2

Matthew Macfadyen

Jerome Flynn

Adam Rothenberg

MyAnna Buring

David Dawson

David Wilmot

Leanne Best

Frank Harper

Gillian Saker

Damien Molony

Peter Sullivan

Scott Handy

Belinda Stewart-Wilson

Andrew Tiernan

Frankie McCafferty

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Jassa Ahluwalia

Alexander Cobb

David Glynn Crowley

Dale Leadon Bolger

Stephen Jones

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Stephen Smallwood

Kieron Hawkes

Thomas Martin

Toby Finlay

Ripper Street: Series 2: Episode 5: Threads of Silk and Gold

Threads of Silk and Gold

Episode 5

Episode 5: Threads of Silk and Gold

Series 2

BBC Two - Ripper Street, Series 2, Threads of Silk and Gold

Investigations into the slaying of a telegraph boy lift the lid on a secret vice racket.

Crime drama. Investigations into the slaying of a telegraph boy lift the lid on a secret vice racket run from the offices of the GPO.

Investigations into the brutal slaying of a telegraph boy lift the lid on a vice racket run from the offices of the GPO. The case leads Reid to the heart of the one of the city's most august financial institutions. Captain Jackson seeks ever more perilous means of ridding he and Long Susan of the suffocating debt they owe Silas Duggan.

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Jack The Ripper may be fading into memory, but east London has found no peace.

The long shadow of Jack the Ripper may be receding, but the job of preventing Whitechapel from descending into hell has never been harder for Detective Inspector Edmund Reid.

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