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Peace and Love

Crime drama. With the World Cup bringing tensions between the UK and USSR to the surface, Gently investigates the murder of a well-known left-wing academic.

The year is 1966, and the World Cup has come to England. With the USSR due to play at Roker Park, and the fear of the 'Reds Under the Bed' exemplified by the upcoming Polaris submarine landing at the nearby Jarrow docks, tensions are running high. Gently and Bacchus investigate the murder of a well-known left-wing academic, found dead in the docks after a CND rally.

This takes them onto the Durham University campus - an ancient temple of learning, struggling to come to terms with the novel influx of students from the working class and brash, radical, academics. Sexual and social rebellion is everywhere, and to the young and optimistic these forces seem inevitable and unstoppable.

1 hour, 30 minutes

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Sun 31 Jul 2011 20:30

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George Gently Martin Shaw
John Bacchus Lee Ingleby
Charles Hexton Warren Clarke
Mallory Brown Sarah Lancashire
Adriana Doyle MyAnna Buring
Fraser Barratt Emun Elliott
Elizabeth Higgs Kerrie Hayes
David Swift James Atherton
Chief Constable Lilley Francis Magee
Pathologist Tim Dann
PC Taylor Simon Hubbard
Seagull Barman Gary Amers
Night Watchman Neil Armstrong
Man David Whitaker
Student Harry Hepple
Director Daniel O'Hara
Writer Jimmy Gardner
Producer Suzan Harrison

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