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Synopsis: London Road documents the events of 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. The residents of London Road had struggled for years with frequent soliciting and kerb-crawling on their street. When a local resident was charged and then convicted of the murders, the community grappled with what it meant to be at the epicentre of this tragedy.
Director(s): Rufus Norris
Production: BBC Worldwide North America
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.3
Metacritic:
71
Rotten Tomatoes:
76%
TV-14
Year:
2015
91 min
1,104 Views


We were so getting fed up

with just being asked, you know.

They were asking if you had nose hair.

Ear hair.

Wha... wha... Goodness knows

why they wanted to know that.

Police kept issuing these strange things

about what you should and shouldn't do,

but they never said, "Don't be a

prostitute and get into a stranger's car,"

which was the obvious thing, really,

wasn't it?

Cos everyone else was quite safe

walking the streets.

We assumed particularly when, I mean,

it was just prostitutes he seemed to be...

Murdering.

When they did the house

questions, you know, that was really...

I thought

he was gonna be arrested.

There was a knock on the door. Terry said,

"You're wanted. In the lounge. Police. "

He was doing every house.

Every single house in London Road.

Er, your mind goes blank. "Where was

you on Monday night?" sort of thing.

Can't remember exactly the date. And you

think, "Well, where was I? What did I do?"

Then he said, "What colour...? Have you

got blue eyes?" I said yes I think.

Yeah, you said yes.

Then he said,

"Have you got a hairy chest?"

And I looked at him and thought,

you know, "Where is this leading to?"

I got up and all I could see

Were police cars going up the road

And of course, you know

I, we knew

Obviously it was in charge of, you know

Something to do with these poor girls

But erm...

And that's when it all started

It all kicked off

Well, I got woken up by the telephone

Me son rung me on his mo...

On, on my home phone

I said, "Where are you?"

He said, "I'm down the road but you need

To tell the police that I'm your son"

I said, "Why? What have you done?"

And that's when it all started

It all kicked off

He said, "No, no, no

We're not allowed down the road"

And lo and behold there was police

There was cameras, there was my son

It all started

It all kicked off

You looked up the road

And it's all you saw

Was like a tented, a tented area

You looked up the road

And it's all you saw

Was like a tented, a tented area

Erm, outside number 79

Erm, outside number 79

You looked up the road

And it's all you saw

Was like a tented, a tented area

You looked up the road

And it's all you saw

Was like a tented, a tented area

Erm, outside number 79

Erm, outside number 79

And I thought, "Oh, no

There's another prostitute been found"

I got up

And all I could see were police cars

Going up the road

And of course, you know

I, we knew

Obviously it was in charge of, you know

Something to do with these poor girls

But, erm...

But, erm, that's when it all started

It all kicked off

I got up

And all I could see were police cars

Going up the road

And of course, you know

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Alecky Blythe

Alecky Blythe is a British playwright and screenwriter. She has written several plays, including the acclaimed 2011 musical London Road.Her first play Come Out Eli won a Time Out Award. The Girlfriend Experience premiered at the Royal Court and then transferred to the Young Vic in 2009. Do We Look Like Refugees? won a Fringe First Award at the 2010 Edinburgh Festival. London Road opened at the National Theatre-Cottesloe in 2011 to widespread acclaim. It was named Best Musical at the Critics' Circle Awards and transferred to the National's larger Olivier stage in 2012. Her newest play Have I Been All My Life? opened at the New Vic Theatre in April 2012. In other work, Blythe took part in Headlong Theatre's production of Decade at St Katherine's Docks. She wrote and co-directed a BBC2 documentary on the London riots. She is also working on a film script. Blythe is best known for her pioneering work in verbatim theatre. Her theatre company Recorded Delivery was set up in 2003 to advance this branch of theatre. more…

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