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Contains some upsetting scenes.

This Thing of Darkness, Series 3, The Christmas Killers

This Thing of Darkness

Series 3

The Christmas Killers

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January 24, 2024

44 minutes

Available for over a year

by s Poet with monologues by Eileen Horne

Part Four – The Christmas Killers

Dr Alex Bridges is an expert forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist, assessing and treating perpetrators of serious crime.

This gripping drama explores the psychological impact of murder on teenage perpetrators and follows the fortunes of participants in a Long Sentence therapy group.

How do you come to with your own capacity for violence?

Dr Alex Bridges ….. Lolita Chakrabarti

Anthony ….. Lorn Macdonald

Finn ….. Reuben Joseph

Twitch …. Brian Ferguson

Simon ….. Shaun Mason

The Governor….. Karen Bartke

Dani ….. Elysia Welch

Dead Elvis….Andy Clark

Sound Design: Fraser Jackson

Series Consultant: Dr Gwen Adshead

Series format created by Lucia Haynes, Audrey Gillan, Eileen Horne, Gaynor Macfarlane, Anita Vettesse and Kirsty Williams.

Thanks to Victoria Byrne, Barlinnie Prison, Vox Liminis Distant Voices Project and Prof Fergus McNeill.

Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane and Kirsty Williams

A BBC Scotland Production directed by Kirsty Williams