Three Girls BBC1

I watched it. Definitely harrowing, and I'm used to the subject as we run programmes on tackling CSE at my work.

I watched and thought it was superb and highlights the damages these people do and the terrible lifestyle decision the victims make because the damages the perpetrators do. I have also witnessed that in something similar.

Also this programme suggest that there are more people in this sex ring that has been caught and brought to justice, hopefully this programme will change this.

Also what also hit me was the magnitude of the victims' who were really alone when giving evidence via a video link from a room in the court, it was essentially the victim versus many baying barristers' looking to trap the victims, the victim couldn't have anyone sitting with them and couldn't be coached what to say, so could understand if they got overwhelmed. However where this was wrong and I did a similar case on jury service, that the victims' were still children and would have been classified as vulnerable victims', so correctly they showed evidence from the children via a video link from a room in thecourt, but also the law would have allowed the barristers and the judge to remove robes and wigs whilst the children gave evidence.

It wasn't pleasant viewing but wouldn't either describe it is a downer and personally thought it was very powerful. Leslie Sharpe and Maxine Peake were sublime, the children were brilliant -but also the Pakistani men who played the perpetrators were excellent, this isn't an easy role to portray.

Rochdale was one of the least sordid ring, other rings have occurred around the country where the crimes were more heinous and have met justice with long prison sentences.

It is on BBC I player for the next month.

I'm with Phantom, couldn't decide whether it was Sharpe or Peake who was best. Both wonderful performances.

Some really good gritty drama at the moment. Three Girls, Little Boy Blue, Charles III and Jimmy McGovern's Broken this week

Superb drama.

I feel a bit sorry for the Asian actors cast as the rapists though. Clearly it is work for them in a prime BBC 1 drama but cast for their "look". Sometimes ordinary folk cannot distinguish between reality and fiction and I hope these actors are not abused in the street following this by people thinking they are "real".

The soaps (unbelievably) get job applications from the public to work in the Rovers Return or the Woolpack etc!