Summary
Back in May, See No Evil, ITV's first bite at Ian Brady and Myra Hindley's crimes, looked as hard as it could bear at the pair's relationship in an effort to divine how it generated so much evil. The mystery of his devotion to her is unravelled right at the start of the film, when Longford, about to bore the listeners of a radio phone-in by plugging his book Saints, explains that he has written it because, "as a lifelong Christian and scholar", he is interested in "sanctity". In their final encounter - as she nears her death from emphysema that produced a heart attack - she recalls her nights on the moors burying bodies with Brady.
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Piety and Prejudice
Television
Piety and prejudiceThe Moors murderer meets a bumbling Christian; the result is comic horrorLongfordChannel 4Longford, you will note, not Hindley. Peter Morgan, in another of his insp...See the full content of this document
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