- Radio Times
- Review by:
- Alison Graham
It’s as daft as a whole cupboardful of brushes, but Whitechapel is so cleverly done - however dumb its gleefully gory stories, they are always well filmed and nattily edited - that it’s difficult not to get caught up in the eerie atmosphere.
As a new story begins, a motorcyclist finds a dismembered arm. When Detective Inspector Chandler and his team investigate, they discover that the limb has been scavenged by a fox. So presumably the rest of the body is lying somewhere in the capital’s gloomy netherworld of reeking dark alleyways and badly lit, threatening snickets.
Of course, there has to be a parallel with a particular historical serial killing, and nerdy expert Edward Buchan sees similarities to the Thames Torso Murders. It’s barmy, but the episode is lifted by Barbara Marten as a Miss Havisham-type woman with a hoarding problem.
About this programme
3/6. Part one of two. Chandler and the team attend the christening of Miles' daughter, but soon find themselves dealing with a murder case when a fox runs through Whitechapel with a human arm in its mouth. More body parts from the same person are washed up from the Thames, but the detectives struggle to identify the victim. Starring Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davis and Steve Pemberton.
Cast and crew
Cast
- DI Joseph Chandler
- Rupert Penry-Jones
- DS Ray Miles
- Phil Davis
- Edward Buchan
- Steve Pemberton
- DC Emerson Kent
- Sam Stockman
- DC Finley Mansell
- Ben Bishop
- DC Megan Riley
- Hannah Walters
- Dr Caroline Llewellyn
- Claire Rushbrook
- DI Mina Norroy
- Camilla Power
- Nathan Merceron
- Paul Chequer
- Adelina Grace
- Barbara Marten
- Victor Durward
- Andrew Buckley
- Mrs Bowe
- Sadie Shimmin
- Anita
- Jacqueline Roberts
- Judy
- Alison Newman
- Igor
- Damian Dudkiewicz
Crew
- Director
- Richard Clark
- Executive Producer
- Sally Woodward Gentle
- Producer
- David Boulter
- Writer
- Ben Court
- Writer
- Caroline Ip
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