Gorton

It implies a lack of seriousness, I suppose, but there is like a clear endeavor behind it to connect together like genuine anger and grievances around cost of living and like the economic side of things with the green politics.

And I suppose you actually see maybe in the Gorton and Denton by-election, in which Hannah Spencer was returned with a commanding, what was it, 40% of the vote? I'm probably going to get that slightly wrong, but it was a convincing victory.

And they sort of beat reform at their own game to an extent by making those connections between people's anger about cost of living, but doing so in a sort of hopeful way and flipping the script.

Could you say a little bit more about this by-election, right? It was a real watershed moment for people in the country that maybe have already forgotten about it.

Yeah.

Yeah, brilliant.

So the Gorton intent and by-election happened in February of this year at the time of speaking, so that was February 26th.

And it was a parliamentary by-election in a place called Gorton and Denton in Greater Manchester.

It was this desire to live by their own rules and develop their own secret code, which eventually led them to systematically plan the Moors' murders as part of a sexually sadistic relationship.

But what interests me is how does a seemingly ordinary working-class girl from Gorton become the most hated woman in British history, her face the iconic image of evil? I think it's important to start with that police photo and find out why it became so embedded in this country's cultural landscape.

We felt it was a mask.

Would somebody please take that mask off and show the real Myra Hindley? Because that mask there with that white hair, that sullen face, the eyes drooping, the prominent lips, the whiteness of the face, the whiteness of the hair with those dark roots.

At the time of her death, she was the longest serving female prisoner in our history, a dubious record that she still holds.

As a crime writer, I want to know what drove this woman to torture and murder children from her own community.

Myra Hindley was born in the working class district of Gorton in Manchester on the 23rd of July, 1942.

Like many others, she was raised in a typical back-to-back Victorian terrace.

It was this desire to live by their own rules and develop their own secret code, which eventually led them to systematically plan the Moors' murders as part of a sexually sadistic relationship.

But what interests me is how does a seemingly ordinary working-class girl from Gorton become the most hated woman in British history, her face the iconic image of evil? I think it's important to start with that police photo and find out why it became so embedded in this country's cultural landscape.

We felt it was a mask.

Would somebody please take that mask off and show the real Myra Hindley? Because that mask there with that white hair, that sullen face, the eyes drooping, the prominent lips, the whiteness of the face, the whiteness of the hair with those dark roots.

At the time of her death, she was the longest serving female prisoner in our history, a dubious record that she still holds.

As a crime writer, I want to know what drove this woman to torture and murder children from her own community.

Myra Hindley was born in the working class district of Gorton in Manchester on the 23rd of July, 1942.

Like many others, she was raised in a typical back-to-back Victorian terrace.

It was this desire to live by their own rules and develop their own secret code, which eventually led them to systematically plan the Moors' murders as part of a sexually sadistic relationship.

But what interests me is how does a seemingly ordinary working class girl from Gorton become the most hated woman in British history? Her face the iconic image of evil.

I think it's important to start with that police photo and find out why it became so embedded in this country's cultural landscape.

We felt it was a mask.

At the time of her death, she was the longest serving female prisoner in our history, a dubious record that she still holds.

As a crime writer, I want to know what drove this woman to torture and murder children from her own community.

Myra Hindley was born in the working class district of Gorton in Manchester on the 23rd of July, 1942.

Like many others, she was raised in a typical back-to-back Victorian terrace.