Stunning Red Riding trilogy is no fairytale look back to the 1970s

Fact, fiction and conspiracy theory combine in one of the most startling and original series broadcast over the past 20 years.

- Neil Pickford on The Red Riding Trilogy

The events of the Red Riding Trilogy - which was first broadcast in 2009 and has recently been added to Netflix - take place between 1974 and 1983 and are set against the background of the Yorkshire Ripper killings.

Set in Leeds, Bradford, Halifax and the rest of West Yorkshire, the series and the books that inspired it follow several recurring fictional characters through a bleak and violent world of police corruption and organised crime.

The novels and television versions blend the facts, the fictionalised characters and the conspiracy theories into a concoction that was dubbed 'Yorkshire Noir' by some critics.

The television series takes the content from the first, third and fourth novels in the series written by David Peace.

The cast list reads like a who's who of the best of British drama over the past two decades.

Sean Bean, Eddie Marsan, Paddy Considine, Maxine Peake, Tony Pitts, Warren Clarke, David Morrissey, Mark Addy, Daniel Mays, Saskia Reeves and Peter Mullan are all magnificent.