London Road Page #5

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
1,188 Views


I believe there are still

A few round in Hanford Road

But, erm, we really can't

Concern ourselves with it

The street has got much better

I think that the police

Have done exceptionally well

Under exceptional circumstances

To clear the streets as they have done

This really is our first AGM

This really is our first AGM

I wanna say thank you to the police

Thank 'em cos representatives here

And the ward councillors

The county councillors

Who have done a lot to help us

And so thank you very much all of you

Yeah, forthcoming events

Julie...

Yeah, the quiz night

Fish-and-chip supper

It's, erm, you know

More, the more the merrier

Friends, family so...

So hopefully see you all there

With your friends and family

And also, er, London Road

In Bloom Contest

Big event on 11th July

To make the area look pretty and that

And getting people involved

And getting interested in their road

And their homes again

If you make your house look nice

And feel good about where you're living

You'll enjoy

You'll enjoy life a hell of a lot better

So get thinking about

Your gardens, your designs

Hanging baskets and so forth

So I'd like to see as many as possible

So it should be a good, good day

So get thinking about

Your gardens, your designs

Hanging baskets and so forth

So I'd like to see as many as possible

So it should be a good, good day

That's about it.

That's it. Thank you.

All right?

Impossible to report cos I can't...

I can't use the word "semen".

Can you not?

Can't use the word "semen"

At lunchtime

And I can't use it at six o'clock

I can use it at ten o'clock

But I can't use it before teatime

So what do you use instead?

I don't know, really. What can I say?

Love juice

Bodily fluids

Well, that's just taste reasons

Cos we... we can't basically have a...

Wha... what our editors call

a "Mummy, what's semen?" moment

Erm... in the trade

Male bodily flui...

Male body fluid

Sounds as if he's going around

Spreading it all over Ipswich

Boy juice

Ready? Three, two, one.

Using his hands to demonstrate

Peter Wright explained

How forensic scientists

Had extracted Steve Wright's DNA

From other se...

Ready?

Using his hands to demonstrate

Peter Wright explained

How forensic scientists

Had extracted Steve Wright's DNA

From other se...

Cellular material found in the...

Told you, didn't I?

I think he probably did do it

He must have done it, really

I think he did it

Definitely did it now

- I think they'll find him guilty

- I think he'll be found guilty but...

- It's circumstantial

- But he's gonna get away with it

It's only circumstantial evidence

They've got

I still reckon

He's gonna get away with it, you know...

Still running.

Using his hands to demonstrate

Peter Wright explained

How forensic scientists

Had extracted Peter...

Steve Wright...

Steve Wright, Peter Wright.

Whenever you're ready

- OK.

- Just running up.

Using his hands to demonstrate

Peter Wright explained

How forensic scientists

Had extracted Peter Wright's

Peter Wright, Steve Wright

This is the problem

With this bloody trial

Too many Wrights

- I think he probably did do it

- He must have done it really

I think he did it

Definitely did it now

- I think they'll find him guilty

- I think he'll be found guilty but...

- It's circumstantial

- But he's gonna get away with it

It's only circumstantial evidence

They've got

I still reckon

He's gonna get away with it, you know

Ready? Three, two, one

Using his hands to demonstrate

Peter Wright explained

How forensic scientists

Had extracted Steve Wright's DNA

From other DNA material

Found on both gloves...

- Cellular material! This is complicated.

- We're running.

How many takes are we gonna do?

- Dunno

- OK

- Well, that's running up

- Shall we just say "sperm"?

- Ha!

- Sorry.

Question L, what was the first and

might possibly be the only, I'm not sure,

some people might know better than me,

the first Oscar-winning film...

'Steve Wright denies killing five women

'In late-2006...

Hang on. Ron, sorry, it's...

'Here's Simon Newton...

'For a second day, DNA expert Dr Peter

Hau from the Forensic Science Service

'arrived at Ipswich Crown Court in a van.

'Today, the jury heard more

about this pair of gardening gloves.

'They were found inside a high-vis jacket

recovered from Steve Wright's house

'at 79 London Road. '

Ooh, the house. It's here.

'Using his hands to demonstrate

'Peter Wright explained

How forensic scientists

'Had extracted Steve Wright's DNA

'From other cellular material

'Inside the thumbs of both gloves

'Dr Hau said

That within that cellular material

'He found the incomplete profile

Matching the fifth victim

'The chance of it not being hers

'"One in a billion," he said

'Simon, thank you'

Using his hands to demonstrate

Peter Wright explained

How forensic scientists

Had extracted Steve Wright's DNA

From other cellular material

Inside the thumbs of both gloves

Dr Hau said

That within that cellular material

He found the incomplete profile

Matching the fifth victim

The chance of it not being hers

"One in a billion," he said

The chance of it not being hers

"One in a billion," he said

"One in a billion," he said

Shoosh!

That's gotta be him then.

- That's the one.

- Seriously?

That's fine. That made sense.

That make sense to you?

Yeah, that's all right.

That all works. We got it.

It's up there if you need it.

Yourself, I mean...

You being as far as I can, like

as far as I'm aware, about the only person

that has actually come down here

and asked the residents how they feel.

You know, we just wanna...

wanna see an end.

End to it, and London Road

getting back to being London Road,

instead of being known for somewhere...

where the murderer lived.

You see, the police

have ignored the problem, really.

Mm, they have. They would deny it.

They will deny it, but they have ignored.

They ignored the problem

of the prostitutes.

- We've all stopped

- We've all stopped working now

We've all stopped now

An' it, and it has been

Because of the murders

And it has, yeah

That's why, like, we all stopped

I've got...

Well, saying that, I've got regulars

We've got regulars

That phone and we see

You know, won't work the street

But we've got a few regulars

That keep us going

You know, won't work the street

But we've got a few regulars

That keep us going

Ever since the murders

Took place, like

There's no point

Going down there for one

Because all the cars get stopped

And you just get arrested all the time

They weren't, like, nicking us

- They were, like, nicking the men

- They were just stopping all of the men

I wanna get myself clean

If I could do anything

You know, like get myself clean

For them almost

- Do you know what I mean?

- That's what, that's what I've done

Getting myself clean

- Since the murders...

- There's been help given us, yeah?

- There's girls that ain't took it

- We've took it

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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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