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Jennifer Spence, one of the stars of the British mystery crime series 'Traces,' talks to interviewer Alexandra Heilbron about being the only Canadian in the ...
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Traces focuses on three female forensic professionals, Emma Hedges, Sarah Gordon and Kathy Torrance, working together at the fictional Scottish Institute of Forensic Science and Anatomy (SIFA) at the fictional University of Tayside in Dundee, Scotland, as they uncover the truth of a murder case and bring a killer to justice.
Traces: With Laura Fraser, Michael Nardone, Jennifer Spence, Andrea Hart. While attending an online forensic course, young lab assistant discovers that the fictitious case study has a link to her past. With the help of two female professors she works on bringing a killer to justice.
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From left: Jennifer Spence, Laura Fraser, Molly Windsor and Martin Compston couldn’t agree on where to look for this shot. The murder of Emma’s mother Marie Monroe is the main focus of series 1. Emma thought she left the tragic event in her past, but it’s soon revisited when she moves to Dundee to become a lab assistant.
- The Forensic Science Is Foolproof
- Forensics, on The Other Hand, Is A Made-Up Word
- The Idea For The Show Started with A Real-Life MOOC
“The way a lot of TV crime dramas portray the science isn’t realistic. As part of the work we do, we’re trying to ensure that we raise the standard of the science underpinning forensic evidence, as well as the understanding of the complexities of forensic science. I wanted as much as possible to have the subtleties of the science being portrayed co...
“Forensic comes from the Latin forensis and means pertaining to the forum, and describes the use of a scientific discipline to address a medical and legal question. So it has to be forensic something – forensic chemistry, forensic biology, etc. It’s a bit pedantic, but nonetheless, I am fairly insistent that the word “forensics” doesn't have any me...
“The first MOOC we did at Dundee was called Identifying The Dead. We wanted to do a murder mystery because everybody loves solving them. We based the story around the different steps and stages required to identify human skeletal remains. The MOOC was great fun to do, but it’s quite labour intensive to run – Tracesmirrors that well. “Val wrote a sh...
May 1, 2019 · But she soon discovers that the fictitious case study has a strikingly similar and shocking link to her past. As Emma's sleuthing takes her into darker corners and unpicks more and more secrets, it becomes clear that she should trust no-one.
Molly Windsor and Breaking Bad's Laura Fraser star alongside Line of Duty's Martin Compston in BBC and Alibi murder mystery Traces. But who else stars?
