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Is Line of Duty Copaganda?

What impact does the ubiquity of police dramas on our screens have on the real criminal justice system? And has Line of Duty been feeding us pure ideology all this time? Ben Smoke and Caspar Salmon join Ash Sarkar to interrogate the world of fictional police.

  • Published 3 May 2021

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