Writer Tony Schumacher introduces The Responder, his new drama for BBC One

Filming begins in Liverpool today on BBC One’s The Responder, a distinctive new take on crime drama from the makers of The Salisbury Poisonings, Dancing Ledge Productions.

The Responder was created and written by ex-police officer Tony Schumacher (who was part of our Northern Voices writer development group) and is his first original series for television. The Responder holds a mirror up to the emotional extremes of life on the front line of British policing - sometimes darkly funny, sometimes painfully tragic, always challenging.

Watch Tony introduce The Responder below.

Find out more about The Responder, including the cast, on the BBC's Media Centre website

Find out more about our Northern Voices writer development group