Clips
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Jackson Dismisses One Client and Makes a Breakthrough With Another Duration: 02:22 When Will There Be Good News? Part 2
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DI Munroe plans a date and leaves Brodie stranded when he calls for help Duration: 01:36 When Will There Be Good News? Part 1
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Jackson is caught red-handed in a suspect's house Duration: 03:05 One Good Turn - Part 2
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Jackson Brodie gets his assistant to help him on a job Duration: 01:32 One Good Turn - Part 1
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Private Detective Jackson Brodie gets a hard time from the women in his life Duration: 01:26 Case Histories - Part 2
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Private detective Jackson Brodie meets new client Theo Wyre Duration: 01:50 Case Histories - Part 1
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Background
Case Histories is set amidst the iconic landscapes of modern Edinburgh, bringing to screen the delightful jigsaw puzzles of Kate Atkinson’s novels and the complexity of her hero Jackson Brodie.
A former soldier and policeman, Jackson’s tough-guy exterior belies a deeply empathetic heart. He's unable to resist coming to the rescue and is a magnet for the bereaved, the lost and the dysfunctional.
Full of entertaining and original characters, each two part story is warm, poignant and life-affirming, enjoying humour whilst exploring the darkness that underpins each crime mystery. -
From Script to Screen: The Origins of Case Histories
Author Kate Atkinson and producer Helen Gregory give some insight into the origins of the show.
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Q&A with Jason Isaacs (Jackson Brodie)
"I like all the physical stuff because it’s fun and I remember it more vividly. I remember trying to bite Brian McCardie’s nose off. That was a laugh! He was garrotting me - which reminded me of my favourite scenes from Godfather 2 - and then I turned around and..." (Jason Isaacs)
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Jackson's World: The Characters Not The Crime
“He’s a really interesting guy, I’m never quite sure what he’s going to do in any situation and with whom he is going to click. The most extraordinary characters come into his life and they ask him for help and he really ought to be saying, ‘No’, but he never learns his lesson. He finds it very hard not to help people out. It’s really an emotional drama about a man struggling with his past and putting together the pieces of other people’s pasts to avoid his present. So he runs - a lot!” (Jason Isaacs)
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Jackson's Women
What makes Case Histories so different to other crime dramas is the range of strong female roles.
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Edinburgh as a Character
"We wanted it to look beautiful, enticing, to sparkle even. This isn’t Rankin; this isn’t Rebus. Case Histories is about a different kind of place.” Helen Gregory
Read more about Edinburgh as a Character
"Everywhere you go there is extraordinary architecture and there’s history and beautiful greenery, and the sea. Edinburgh has slightly upstaged me a couple of times I’m sure.” Jason Isaacs -
Case Histories: Bringing Jackson Brodie to the Screen
Case Histories screenwriter Ashley Pharoah on adapting the popular fictional detective: "There are armies of Kate Atkinson fans out there who have their own perfect version of Jackson Brodie in their heads, and who will curse me for fiddling with perfection."
Read and comment on Ashley's post on the BBC TV blog
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