This profound and disturbing true-crime show lays bare the case’s outrageous misogyny – and lets silenced women be heard at last
A testament to the consequences of women not being heard ... Nina Lopez in The Yorkshire Ripper Files: A Very British Crime Story. Photograph: BBC/Wall to Wallver the course of three nights, the film-maker Liza Williams is revisiting one of the biggest – and longest – murder manhunts in British history.
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