Articles about Saul Dibb
The sounds of This City
Set in Liverpool, the city that gave the world The Beatles, BBC crime drama This City is Ours makes music an integral part of its storytelling. Lead director and exec producer Saul Dibb picks out some key scenes from the series where music drives the story emotionally and rhythmically.
BBC claims This City is Ours
FIRST LOOK: Sean Bean, James Nelson-Joyce, Hannah Onslow, Jack McMullen and Julie Graham head the cast of Liverpool-set crime drama This City is Ours, launching on the BBC this spring.
Commanding drama
The Sixth Commandment director Saul Dibb takes DQ inside the making of the “bold and challenging” BBC four-parter, which he describes as an “anti-true crime” drama owing to its focus on the victims at the centre of the real-life story it dramatises.
Sixth sense
Telling the tale of a serial killer who manipulated and gaslit his victims, true crime series The Sixth Commandment has been hailed as one of the dramas of the year. Writer Sarah Phelps and producers Brian Woods and Derek Wax reveal how this story came to the screen.
Dramatic truth
Two years after a deadly poisoning involving a nerve agent in the UK, the cast and creative team behind BBC miniseries The Salisbury Poisonings reveal how they dramatised this real-life national emergency.
Dark tales
Known for her frequent Agatha Christie adaptations, writer Sarah Phelps reveals how she transformed Tana French’s Irish crime novels into BBC drama Dublin Murders.





