Drama About The Moors Murders

hi there, ages ago i saw a drama advertised about the moors murders with maxine peak playing myra hindley does anybody know if this has been on yet?

come on everybody some of you must have heard about this drama

anyone?...............

It's a 2 part series that starts on Sunday at 9.30pm, it started to be advertised last night on ITV.

Hope that helps.

rate cheeky i know ......... BUT could anyone tape this for me please please pretty please, its my lads birthday on that day and i wont be able to watch it

thanky yoooooo ( just incase)

It could be repeated on ITV 2 or 3 considering the interest? I mean it's been kept in the public for 40 years, and I'm sure many people will watch, so they could repeat it?

From what I've read it'll be from the point of view of Maureen Hindley (myras sister) we won't see any abductions or killings, except for the last murder in a flashback sequence, as it was what led to them being arrested.

Maxine Peak (Hindley) is a great actress and I've seen Sean Harris (Brady) in a few fims and he seems a good actor as well. Must have been difficult to film, especially on the moors where somewhere is Keith Bennett.

Saw this about the screening the families of the victims had this week:

Lasting testament of evil and suffering

It's 40 years since Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were jailed for notorious crimes which robbed a nation of its innocence. Now the families of their victims have

co-operated with the first television drama about the Moors Murders. Sheena Hastings reports.

WHERE do you start writing a television drama based on events so barbaric and horrifying? How do you deal sensitively with the murder of five youngsters, preceded by abduction, molestation and mutilation?

How do you portray the insidious nature of the evil that spawns such acts, without adding to the trauma of those who have lived for four decades with the savage death of their loved one? And how do you also avoid adding to the suffering of those who innocently lived cheek-by-jowl with Ian Brady and Myra Hindley?

All of these people have suffered every day for 40 years.

When Granada Television executive producer Geoff Pope, producer Lisa Gilchrist and writer Neil McKay sat down to consider the conundrum, they knew the only television drama that could be made with any kind of honour was one which consulted and won the support of the families of the victims of the duo.

As soon as the team met the families of John Kilbride, Lesley-Ann Downey, Keith Bennett, Pauline Reade and Edward Evans, it quickly became clear that they would throw their weight behind the project.

Collectively, they felt the time was now right, that the 40th anniversary of Brady and Hindley's trial was a suitable moment to take an appraising look at the story. They also felt their experiences as families had never been understood. But, most crucially, they were anxious that the crimes should never be forgotten, never lost from public consciousness.

The surviving parents, brothers and sisters of the dead youngsters saw the drama as their opportunity to help in the creation of an accurate record of the story, a lasting testament of evil. Lest we forget.

The families gave interviews, and shared family memories and photographs. As they ****ed, they relived the shocking moment when they realised that John, Lesley-Ann, Keith, Pauline and Edward had disappeared, apparently into thin air during 1963 and 1965.

Also interviewed were retired police officers who worked on the murder investigations, journalists, relatives, friends and neighbours. Court transcripts, many other documents, archive material such as news film from the time, private letters and photographs were consulted in reconstructing lives that were torn apart by killing.

At an emotional screening ahead of next week's broadcast, the families gathered to view the three-hour drama See No Evil: The Moors Murders. They approved the film, feeling it did justice not only to the truth, but to their own place in the story and their feelings about it.

What's initially shocking about See No Evil is the very ordinariness of the lives led by Brady and Hindley. She, a pallid brassy blonde, flirts outrageously with "Mr Brady", her boss in the offices of a chemical firm.

He, bloodlessly cold and pseudo-intellectual, looks down on her family and feeds on manipulating Myra. Ian fiddles with photographs in his dark room, Myra gossips with her sister Maureen, and dotes on Maureen's baby, Angela.

When young John Kilbride disappears, his confused and innocent father Pat is dragged into the police station and accused. He was not the only father or stepfather in this story who was seen as the instant and convenient prime suspect.

With crimes this notorious, gruesome portrayal of torture, murder or even abduction is unnecessary.

The writer and producers decided to tell the story through the eyes of those close to Brady and Hindley. Nothing is seen from the point of view of the murderers.

As those closest to the couple at the time, the dominating angle is that of Maureen and her husband, David Smith.

When baby Angela died, Hindley turned up to sympathise, offering flowers and a card that read, "Another flower for God's lovely garden". She hugs her sister and cries apparently genuine tears of grief.

The same woman had by this time helped Brady to molest, kill and bury 12-year-old John Kilbride in a cold moorland grave.

To distract the bereaved parents, Brady suggests a drive onto the moors in Hindley's Mini Traveller. Maureen says she can't get over the quietness of the house without the baby.

"Yes...it's the silence that gets you," says Hindley, who then collects herself and pretends she's ****ing about the recent death of a friend, rather then the silent and inert body of the boy she and her lover extinguished.

Meanwhile, Brady is declaring to Dave Smith that the wild moorland "owns my soul," and embarking on a campaign to persuade Smith to join in with he and Myra in learning to shoot a gun, reading about sadism and possibly robbing a bank.

The heart of the drama is the relationship between Myra and Maureen, sisters who appear to **** about everything. Maureen thinks too highly of Myra to see anything sinister in her behaviour, which becomes increasingly cold and callous.

On one jaunt to the moors, Brady brags to Dave Smith that he has killed "three or four teenagers. They're ideal... younger and they're too much fuss. You're stood on their graves." Later, he refers to one murder as "the messiest yet".

When Maureen and Dave have serious money problems, Brady suggests that he lures a homosexual businessman to his house, where he and Dave can then rob the man to pay the rent.

Myra knocks on Dave and Maureen's door late at night, to say it's time to come round. When Dave follows her, he witnesses Brady's frenzied axe-murder of 17-year-old apprentice Edward Evans.

Hindley stands by with Dave and watches, her face betraying her inner excitement.

It was this crime that brought down the house of cards for Brady and Hindley.

Dave Smith went to the police, and was initially accused of performing the murder with Brady.

The drama highlights the work of the detective at the centre of the investigation, Det Chief Inspector Joe Mounsey. He felt enormous sympathy for the Kilbride family, and vowed he would not rest until he had unravelled the mystery of John's disappearance.

His investigation brought him into contact with the lies, denial and misinformation spouted by Brady and Hindley once they were arrested. He also had to contend with the parochial and often indifferent attitudes of other police officers.

Without Mounsey's persistence, it's possible that the whereabouts of the children's bodies would still be unknown, and that neither Brady nor Hindley would have been brought to justice.

The tears of policemen at the sight of Brady's collection of photographs of his victims, and Mounsey's desperate, almost hysterical digging by hand when he at last finds the spot where John Kilbride was buried, show the emotional wear and tear of such investigations on professionals we might think are hardened by experience.

After Brady and Hindley were convicted, Maureen and Dave Smith tried to pick up the pieces of their shell-shocked lives, but found it impossible. Maureen had three sons, each one spat at by neighbours who called Dave "the third moors murderer". Eventually, his patience gave way, and he assaulted a man. While he was in prison, Maureen felt she couldn't cope, and put her children into care.

Later, Dave and Maureen were reconciled, but she died of a brain haemorrhage at 34. Before she died, she was reconciled with Myra Hindley, and believed in her sister's protestations of repentance. David disagreed.

"Ian Brady didn't want this film to be made," says producer Lisa Gilchrist. "But we didn't need his approval. He ****ed about having 'seen off' other proposed films, ostensibly because he thought they would be distressing to the families.

"But the families felt it was right to do it, and it was a privilege to have them involved.

"It's of immense importance that we don't forget that such evil can exist even in the most ordinary, unremarkable lives.

"For a generation of children, this time in 1966, when the full horror of what Brady and Hindley had done came out, it was the moment when mothers said to their children, 'You don't go out and play any more'."

See No Evil: The Moors Murders will be screened in two parts, at 9.30pm on Sunday, May 14 and 9pm on Monday, May 15.

Obviously a very difficult subject to tackle on TV but often the best drama is that which does tackle difficult subjects. As it was such a famous case at the time it will be informative to those of us who were not around then.

As to wheather or not it serves any larger purpose is hard to say. It would be almost impossible to get inside the warped minds of either of the two killers (one is dead the other clinically insane) and thus it will not really explain how such things can happen but it may go beyond the usual tabloid discussion of the case.

Scary thing is that they were living outwardly normal lives up until the morning they were arrested.

It's good that the families back it, they're the ones that matter.

The ONLY ones that matter I should have said

As it's on ITV, expect sensationalism rather than sensitivity. Comforting to know that should your loved ones ever get murdered there'll be some TV executive waiting to reopen the emotional scars for the sake of entertainment....

tis is when it is on i saw it in the news paper but the man was trying to get them not to show it because he felt sorry for them he is stupid 9.30pm on Sunday, May 14 and 9pm on Monday, May 15