We've reached Newcastle this week and will be spending time with Ann Cleeves' most wonderful creation - Inspector Vera Stanhope. We'll let Vera show us round the city and its most beautiful surrounds, and the ways that the novels and TV drama showcase both the beauty and brutality interwoven into northern life.

Ann Cleeves website; Vera filming locations; Vera location tours; Ann Cleeves talks about Vera; Brenda Blethyn talks about Vera.