STEELTOWN MURDERS - BBC 1 mon weekly 9pm - TV PACE - no SPOILERS

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Steeltown Murders is an upcoming four-part BBC One drama - on Monday at 9pm for 4 weeks

it will be on iPlayer 🙄🙄🙄 so no bingers please with spoilers if you can’t hold restraint 😂😂

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_One) factual drama television miniseries written by Ed Whitmore (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Whitmore) and directed by Marc Evans (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Evans). Starring Philip Glenister (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Glenister) and Steffan Rhodri (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steffan_Rhodri)
as detectives investigating a set of murders in
Port Talbot (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Talbot) in
South Wales (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Wales)

. It is scheduled to premiere on 15 May 2023 on
BBC One (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_One)
, with all episodes immediately available on
BBC iPlayer (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_iPlayer)
.

A brand new Welsh-made, true crime drama is coming to BBC (https://www.walesonline.co.uk/all-about/bbc) One this May, Steeltown Murders. Set in both the 1970s and early 2000s, Steeltown Murders is an account of how three murders in south Wales were solved
almost 30 years after they had been committed.

The drama centres on the hunt to catch the killer of three young women in the Port Talbot (https://www.walesonline.co.uk/all-about/port-talbot) area and the remarkable story of how - in the first case of its kind - the mystery was solved almost 30 years later using pioneering DNA evidence.

In September 1973, teenage factory workers Geraldine Hughes and Pauline Floyd left the Top Rank nightclub in Swansea (https://www.walesonline.co.uk/all-about/swansea) together to try hitching a lift home.

But they'd never reach their destination. Instead their bodes were discovered the next day dumped in Neath Port Talbot (https://www.walesonline.co.uk/all-about/neath-port-talbot) woodland having been raped and strangled.

It was a hideous crime which left two families in mourning and an entire community in fear of where its perpetrator might strike next.

The resulting search for the culprit, Wales' very first documented serial killer (https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/tv/bbc-dark-land-how-wales-22751647), ended up becoming one of the longest-running murder hunts in this country's history.

Indee d it would take 30 years before officers finally unmasked the a man who'd come to be known as
The Saturday Night Strangler (https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/how-saturday-night-strangler-finally-15031305)

• and whom, it was discovered, was responsible for a third death.

Starring Philip Glenister from Life on Mars as DCI Paul Bethell and Gavin & Stacey's Steffan Rhodri as Phil ‘Bach’ Rees, the story will follow two timelines, the early 1970s and early 2000s, and the younger versions of the detectives are played by Scott Arthur (Good Omens, Borg McEnroe) and Siôn Alun Davies (The Sandman, Hidden).
Also featuring in the cast are: Keith Allen, Priyanga Burford, Sharon Morgan, Nia Roberts, Amy Morgan, Matthew Gravelle, Gareth John Bale, Elinor Crawley, Kriss Dosanjh, Oliver Ryan and Dyfan Dwyfor.

Gareth John Bale is playing his real life uncle in this.

I thought it was good. My aunt lived in Port Talbot, near the beach, and we used to holiday there. I'm a similar age to the girls too yet I don't remember the case, or the subsequent reopening, at all.

Not at all, unless you don’t know even the name of the killer.

@Llynmair Actually I don’t know anything about these murders and you have just given me the name of the killer.

I wanted to watch this but worried it sounded rather grim/violent. I prefer made up detective programmes to true crime. Though I thought the Pembrokeshire Murders one was done quite well.

that's an odd response. this is an actual case that actually happened right?

perhaps you're taking heinous crimes as entertainment a bit far?

I did not know the name of the killer.
I do now though. 🙄

You know it's a dramatisation rather than a documentary don't you?

You know the crimes happened before most of us were born?

You know some people would like to see how the investigation unfolded rather than go straight to the end?

Otherwise we may as well just read a news article and tell the BBC to save their money.

Right. This is based on true facts so yes those who know the story /read up about it will know who the killer is

But for those who don't , like me , please can we not have names mentioned

Thanks

People still recall the murders as if it were yesterday. It was and still is awful and I hate driving along the road where two of the girls were murdered. It’s a bit of a shortcut , a back road used to avoid the motorway. This was very local to me, one of the girls, Pauline lived just two streets away. It’s horrendous. Honestly.

I missed your tag and came onto Mumsnet just to see if you'd posted about any new dramas 🤣. This is tonight's viewing!

What year is the later scenes set. It says present day on IMDB but looks like the past.

All I can think when I watch is that none of the actors have Port Talbot accents. Just watched the first episode. 'Fun' picking out the local streets and landmarks.

The Port Talbot accents are not there. More Valleys/Swansea to my ear.

I thought it was well made, good actors and atmosphere. I know the real story but it will be interesting to see how the investigation is portrayed.

@PollyThePixie sorry to hear this. Did you know her ?

@daffodilandtulip enjoy. I found a little slow in the past but will watch no 2

Ff

they talked about tony blair in modern time so not current.

I want to say set in 2000

A brand new Welsh-made, true crime drama is coming to BBC (www.walesonline.co.uk/all-about/bbc) One this May, Steeltown Murders. Set in both the 1970s and early 2000s, Steeltown Murders is an account of how three murders in south Wales were solved
almost 30 years after they had been committed.

@tinytemper66 I'm not familiar with Port Talbot accents. Philip Glenister's accent was Valleys and Steffen Rhodri obviously Swansea.

Thanks its crazy that early 2000s looks old fashioned now.

It is my accent. Weird how a few miles changes an accent.

I always start programmes like this feeling all wistful about life being better when it was slower ... then give up on the programme because it's slow 🤣

20yrs - 2 decades make a diff

There's also a documentary on i player, featuring the real detectives and some of those who knew the victims - couple of Port Talbot accents there!

I thought here looked little difference in the drama between 1973 and 2000, everywhere still looked grim and brown, which it wasn't generally. There was also more to Port Talbot than just the steelworks ( although my uncles worked there). My family lived on Sandfields, really close to the beach. I haven't been since the late 80s but have very happy memories of the town.