(dramatic piano music) (footsteps marching) - You will answer for it!
- What we aim to do is tell a good story and tell it well.
- The bar is set high and every year we try and better what we've done in the past.
- Russell has produced six absolutely fantastic scripts.
Possibly the best we've ever done.
- 1968 was particularly fertile.
- Paris riots, Kennedy assassination, - The impact of the Cold War.
The immigration bill was introduced.
Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech.
- The world seemed in some kind of turmoil.
The age of revolution, activism, and protesting, the thrust of a new generation.
- As a university city, lots of great minds colliding.
- Ah, what's this then, Fred?
- We all say, pull back the curtain and reveal the kind of seedy underbelly of Oxford.
- There's a new wave of guns, drugs coming through Europe and then we also have in the criminal underworld, a shaking up of power and power grabs.
Gangland warfare taking place.
Bubbling under the surface throughout the whole series.
- It's exciting, it's exhilarating, it's thrilling, it's romantic, there's a lot of very exciting murders coming up.
