ITV’s The Long Shadow trivialises the crimes of Peter Sutcliffe
For all its professed sensitivity, this drama turns the most terrible crimes committed against women into mere entertainment. I’m sad and aggrieved it was made.
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Rachel Cooke is a writer at the Observer. In the 2006 British Press Awards, she was named Interviewer of the Year.
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