Red Riding is the centre piece of Channel 4’s winter drama slate with an all-star cast that includes Sean Bean, Paddy Considine and David Morrissey

Three feature length films based on David Peace’s crime thrillers set in Yorkshire in the 1970s and 1980s, a time of paranoia, police corruption and the Ripper murders

1974
Young Clare Kemplay has gone missing and rookie Yorkshire Post crime correspondent Eddie Dunford (Andrew Garfield) decides to investigate links with the two similar unsolved abductions in the last five years. When Clare's mutilated body is found on a construction site owned by local property magnate John Dawson (Sean Bean), Eddie finds himself out of his depth in a world of secrecy, intimidation, shocking revelations and police brutality as well as in love with the widowed mother of one of the missing girls.

Adrian Johnston has been BAFTA nominated for The Lost Prince, Tipping The Velvet, Perfect Strangers and Our Mutual Friend. He has written over 20 feature film scores including last year’s lavish production of Brideshead Revisited.

1980
It's 1980 and the 'Ripper' has tyrannised Yorkshire for six long years. Senior Manchester detective Peter Hunter (Paddy Considine) is brought in by the Home Office to conduct a secret review of the Ripper investigation to date. Hunter's been involved with West Yorkshire before: he failed to complete an investigation into a shooting involving Yorkshire coppers back in 1974. This time Hunter's determined not to leave without getting results.

Dickon Hinchliffe was a founder member of The Tindersticks , his multi-instrumentalist talents and string arrangements adding a lush sheen to their unique sound.

1983
Nine years on and another Morley child has gone missing on her way home from school. Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson (David Morrissey) is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974 and the subsequent imprisonment of local boy Michael Myshkin (Daniel Mays). Washed-up local solicitor John Piggott (Mark Addy) becomes convinced of Myshkin's innocence and begins to fight on his behalf, and unwittingly provides a catalyst for Jobson to start to right some wrongs.

Barrington Pheloung is a composer and conductor of international renown with an immense catalogue of film and TV music. He wrote perhaps one of the most identifiable themes in small screen history, Inspector Morse, as well as all the music for the 33 episode series