{"id":46671,"date":"2024-02-27T11:17:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T10:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1998547"},"modified":"2024-02-27T12:02:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T11:02:42","slug":"samantha-bond-meera-syal-and-sally-lindsay-appear-on-radio-times-crime-special-covers","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/samantha-bond-meera-syal-and-sally-lindsay-appear-on-radio-times-crime-special-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Samantha Bond, Meera Syal and Sally Lindsay appear on Radio Times crime special covers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lorna Watson, Kerry Godliman and Greta Scacchi also discuss what it’s like playing the lead in some of the UK’s biggest crime dramas. <\/p>

By Tom Loxley\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 27 February 2024 at 10:17 AM<\/p>

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Our fascination with crime is not new, as our columnist David Hepworth reminds us in this issue, referring to George Orwell\u2019s essay Decline of the English Murder, written in 1946. But neither is television\u2019s appetite for covering the crime beat.<\/p>\n

Of course, crime stories come in many guises, from cosy flights of fancy where no one dies horrifically and everybody gathers in the drawing room for a final reckoning over afternoon tea, to terrible accounts of the human cost of real-life murder.<\/p>\n

As our cover story suggests, there is a new crime wave unfolding on television in which female sleuths, often of a certain age, bring criminals to book in a style that owes much to Agatha Christie. To some this is perfect comfort viewing \u2013 exactly what crime on TV should be.<\/p>\n

Although beware of labelling them \u201ccosy\u201d. As the star of The Marlow Murder Club<\/a>, Samantha Bond, tells us: \u201cThere isn\u2019t much that\u2019s cosy about The Marlow Murder Club \u2013 it\u2019s a really complex, funny, intriguing murder mystery.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the other end of the spectrum is the true story that the Oscar-winning writer Dustin Lance Black tells us in his drama Under the Banner of Heaven<\/a>. <\/em>Researching the story of a killing in a tight-knot Mormon community in Utah in the 1980s, he came face to face with a murderer.<\/p>\n

It proved to be a moment of revelation and reckoning. \u201cI understood what sociopathy looks like,\u201d he says. \u201cI could see how pleased he was to have the opportunity to tell his story again.\u201d<\/p>\n

This, of course, is the trap that awaits anyone consuming a crime story. In real life it\u2019s the victims\u2019 stories that are not often told. To that end, in this week\u2019s Radio Times magazine<\/strong>, we also hear the harrowing account of a mother who lost her daughter in a brutal murder. Read Yasmin Javed\u2019s story in this issue.<\/p>\n

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