Ted Hastings Northern Irish past has come back to haunt him several times in Line of Duty.
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The spectre of the Troubles provides fertile drama for cop shows.
A scene from Jonathan Glazer’s new short film, The Fall.
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Can we stop our current political free-fall? Perhaps this dystopian short offers a way out.
Montecruz Foto via Flickr
The Fall’s frontman was the ultimate pop outsider who never lost his working-class Manchester roots.
Nigerian 80s artist William Onyeabor.
Luaka Bop
The search for old or new African sounds is based around a nostalgia culture that is endemic to Anglo-American popular music.
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The Fall writer Alan Cubitt is ‘hurt and upset’ at being accused of misogyny. But maybe misogyny isn’t the point.
BBC’s The Fall has been accused of being misogynistic.
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On screen violence against women is increasingly detailed, intimate and frighteningly authentic – but there’s often just no need.
Gillian Anderson plays detective Stella Gibson in the BBC drama The Fall.
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Female characters are currently dominating our crime dramas on television worldwide, with shows such as British detective series Scott and Bailey, Danish cop show The Killing, Danish/ Swedish co-production…