George Gently Sunday 06 July
8:00pm - 9:30pm
BBC1 Midlands
The Burning Man
Crime drama. An unidentified burnt body draws Inspector Gently and Detective Sergeant Bacchus into the shadowy world of IRA gun-running, and into direct opposition with a ruthless Special Branch officer. Martin Shaw reprises his role as Inspector George Gently, whose impassioned investigations reveal the dark underbelly of a society on the cusp of change. The dramas, based on the Inspector Gently novels by Alan Hunter, are set in mid-1960s Northumberland.