Inspecteur Gently: Gently Northern Soul

SYNOPSIS

New series. Set in 1968 against the backdrop of Martin Luther King's assassination and National Front anti-immigration agitation, Chief Inspector George Gently and his ambitious sergeant John Bacchus investigate the murder of Dolores Kenny, a young black woman. She is a regular attender of a local club's northern soul all-nighters, events popular with factory workers from across the racial divide. Gently begins to uncover evidence of prejudice within the local community and his own police force as he seeks to identify the victim's killer. Sixties detective drama, starring Martin Shaw and Lee Ingleby, with Lenora Crichlow (Being Human), Craig Conway, Pippa Bennell-Warner, Philip Correia (Doctors) and Maggie O'Neill (Shameless).