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BBC Radio 4

Crime and Trial: Rage on the Road

Tuesday 23rd March 2010
Produced by Alan Hall

A new venture for Falling Tree Productions - in collaboration with John Taylor of Fiction Factory, we're producing a drama-documentary. 

The story is the murder of Lee Harvey by his fiance Tracie Andrews.  Her account of the events of that night in December 1996 included a high speed car chase and 'road rage' attack.  The following day, flanked by the victim's parents, she made an emotional appeal for witnesses.  Through the words of Lee's mother Maureen, prosecuting counsel David Crigman, investigating officers, Ian Johnston and Brian Russell and journalists Rod Chaytor and Joanna Bale, together with dramatised scenes - this programme examines the subsequent police investigation, Andrews' trial and conviction and the hold this crime, which inspired the Catatonia song Road Rage, has on the public's imagination.

Press

"In this well- crafted documentary drama - which succeeds in cranking up the tension despite the case's outcome being widely known - the investigating officers recount the dismantling of Andrews's story. Although the psychology of the murderer remains largely a mystery, disclosures about the possible catalyst for the stabbing are revelatory and the tightly wound trial scenes impressively reconstructed."
David Brown, Radio Times 20th March 2010

"a bold and vivid docu-drama ... tense and richly textured from the start."
Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian 24th March 2010

"...what was added was a new level of understanding"
Gillian Reynolds, The Daily Telegraph 30th March 2010

  • Lee Harvey and Tracie Andrews