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The year is 1966 and the football World Cup has come to England. With the USSR due to play at Roker Park and the fear of the "Reds Under the Bed" exemplified by the upcoming Polaris submarine landing at the nearby Jarrow docks, tensions are running high.

CND protestors, lead by radical students from Durham University, are the last thing the police need when the world media is on their doorstep awaiting the upcoming football match.

Gently and Bacchus investigate the murder of a well-known left wing academic, Fraser Barratt (Emun Elliott), found dead in the docks post a CND rally which he had led with his colleague, lecturer Mallory Brown (Sarah Lancashire).

This takes them onto the Durham University campus – an ancient temple of learning struggling to come to terms with the novel influx of students from the working class and brash, radical academics. Here, they meet the university caretaker and ex-army officer Charles Hoxton (Warren Clarke) and sexually forward thinking students Elizabeth Higgs (Kerrie Hayes) and Adriana Doyle (Myanna Buring).

Sexual and social rebellion is everywhere in the air and, to the young and optimistic, these forces seem inevitable and unstoppable. Bacchus is horrified yet fascinated by the promiscuity on display. Gently, more shrewdly recognises that liberation is not always an unmixed blessing.

Behind the scenes on Peace And Love

Students currently studying at Durham University were used to play the students in the film and all enjoyed the experience of filming and wearing costume and make-up from the Sixties.

Recreating a CND riot took over 100 extras and was actually filmed at the world renowned Swan Hunter docks in Newcastle.

Cast list:

George Gently – Martin Shaw
John Bacchus – Lee Ingleby
PC Taylor – Simon Hubbard
Chief Constable Lilley – Francis Magee
Charles Hoxton – Warren Clarke
Mallory Brown – Sarah Lancashire
Elizabeth Higgs – Kerrie Hayes
Fraser Barratt – Emun Elliott
Adriana Doyle – Myanna Buring
David Swift – James Atherton
Seagull Barman – Gary Amers
Night Watchman – Neil Armstong
Man – David Whitaker
Student – Harry Hepple