Talk:Red Riding

Composer
Who is the composer for ep1? It sounds like David Julyan? --Tomhannen (talk) 20:50, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Copied from article space
This was previously in the article space. It looks like a copy-and-paste press release.

[Snipped copyrighted text]

Bradley0110 (talk) 23:35, 29 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Yep, it's from a C4 press release. I've taken the liberty of removing it as it's not GFDL-compatible. The Parting Glass (talk) 22:19, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Internal chronology
The internal chronology of each Wiki section does not tally with the chronology of the episodes themselves. 92.9.155.8 (talk) 23:10, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Shopping centre
Dawson and others refer to it as a shopping centre, it is called a shopping centre in English English and is referred to as such in the film, most notably at the end when Dawson is confronted in one of the closing scenes: "All this over a fucking shopping centre? Fuckin' 'ell.". Though there is mention of "mall", it is "what your Yanks call a shopping mall" - the American name for the same thing.

I have changed the link to reflect this. Chaosdruid (talk) 22:10, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

Quadrilogy to trilogy: Adapted books
Hi,

“the first, second, and fourth of these books became three feature-length television episodes — Red Riding 1974, Red Riding 1980, and Red Riding 1983”

According to David Peace:
 * 1999 Nineteen Seventy-Four
 * 2000 Nineteen Seventy-Seven
 * 2001 Nineteen Eighty
 * 2002 Nineteen Eighty-Three

The not adapted book seems to be the second one, not the third. Can it be checked out?

Best regards, Lacrymocéphale 20:56, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

Removed section
I've removed the following section from the article:


 * Deviations from the novels
 * Aside from the major departure of omitting the second novel — Nineteen Seventy-Seven (2000) — in the sequence, the film adaptations deviate from the books in a number of respects.

*Reverend Martin Laws makes his debut in the 1977 novel rather than the 1974 novel.
 * The character of George Marsh and his son Leonard are the likely murderers of the children, but do not feature in the film.
 * The relationship between Sgt. Foster and Dunford is closer than in the TV series.
 * The TV character John Dawson is a conflation of several different characters in the books, some of whom are hostile to each other and none of whom die.
 * There is an additional subplot involving a missing Rugby League player: Johnny Kelly, who has a connection to one of the book and film's main characters.
 * The shootings take place in the Strafford Public House, not the Karachi Club.
 * The 'ratcatcher', briefly mentioned by Haddon in the TV series, is explained in greater detail.
 * Eddie Dunford discovers the underground lair of the child killers in the book whereas it is not revealed until the climax of 1983 in the film adaptations.

The section has apparently gone untouched since the middle of 2012 without the addition of a single reference. It shouldn't even be in the article. As editors, we aren't citable, so our Sherlocking of the differences has no place in the article. Find references of where a reliable reference has noted these differences, and we have a starting point. Until then, these bits can't return to the article. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 21:14, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

West Yorkshire Constabulary / West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police
I have altered the reference to West Yorkshire Constabulary to West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police which was formed in 1974 and is referred to as such throughout the programme with Bill Hedley (John Henshaw) remarking to Eddie Dunford (Andrew Garfield) that they (the Yorkshire Post) have formed a good relationship with the "newly amalgamated police force".

West Yorkshire Constabulary did not cover the Leeds or Bradford city areas as they had their own police forces until 1974 when they (Leeds City Police and Bradford City Police) merged with West Yorkshire Constabulary to form West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police. BNC85 (talk) 04:27, 27 June 2018 (UTC)