Georgian romance goes awry as a Jane Austen weekend turns deadly. But thanks to DCI Barnaby and DS Winter there’s a happy ending. Such was the plot of this week’s MIDSOMER MURDERS (Death By Persuasion). There were also nine guest stars you may know from other PBS NC fare. Let’s see if you spotted them all.
Claire Skinner and Samuel West played Whitecombe Grange owners Kitty and James Oswood. Skinner has appeared as Lucinda in Chef!, as Fanny Dashwood in Sense And Sensibility and as Sue Brockman in Outnumbered. West has played Caspian in the WonderWorks presentation The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe, Monty in Heavy Weather, Peter Scabious (Older) in Any Human Heart, Frank Edwarss in Mr. Selfridge and, most recently, Siegfried Farnon in All Creatures Great And Small.
Jodie Tyack, who was the Oswood’s rebellious daughter Polly, has been seen in two Masterpiece Mystery offerings. She played Flowers in Prime Suspect: Tennison and Zoe in series two of Unforgotten.
Abigail Cruttenden played Kitty’s sister Nell Fryer. A while back, Cruttenden portrayed Jane in the Sharpe series starring Sean Bean.
Nicholas Gleaves was Ray Fryer, Nell’s husband. He also played DS Andy Roper in Scott & Bailey.
Paul Shelley and Georgie Glen portrayed James’ parents, Walter and Mary. Shelley was Fred Simcox in Paradise Postponed and the followup Titmuss Regained. Glen was Aunt Emma in The Railway Children, Lady Mallinger in Daniel Deronda, Mother Superior in The Collection and Millicent Higgins in Call The Midwife.
John Macmillan played local GP Solomon Franks. He’s been seen as John Bright in Silk.
Lastly, Anamaria Marinca was pathologist Perta Antonescu. She played Yasim Anwar in the Benedict Cumberbatch series The Last Enemy.
MIDSOMER MURDERS continues Saturday at 8 on PBS NC.
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