To catch a KILLER

LIZ WHITE on portraying a real-life police officer who found herself on the front line

- SEAN MARLAND

THE LONG SHADOW
MONDAY, 9PM, ITV1 DRAMA

Liz White has never shied away from a challenging role. Now, the acclaimed actor, whose recent credits include Call the  Midwife and Unforgotten, is set to take on one of her most difficult parts yet as she joins the cast of ITV1’s true-crime drama The Long Shadow to portray a real- life police sergeant.

The seven-part series recounts the desperate five-year manhunt to find serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, who was eventually convicted of murdering 13 women between 1975 and 1980.

In this week’s fourth episode, the police are no closer to catching Sutcliffe but they hope there might finally be a breakthrough after another woman, Maureen Long (played by Clare Burt), survives a brutal night-time attack.

Liz’s character, PS Meg Winterburn, is tasked with going undercover to help Maureen retrace her steps and jog her memory.

Here, Liz, 43, gives us her take on the drama…