Cadfael: A Morbid Taste for Bones
10:00 am - 11:40 am, Sunday, July 19 on ITV4 (26)
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A Morbid Taste for Bones
Season 2, Episode 3
The monks cause a storm of resentment by launching an expedition to a Welsh village to recover the bones of St Winifred and return them to the abbey. As if that does not make them unpopular enough, a local landowner dies in mysterious circumstances and it is up to Brother Cadfael to clear his colleagues of murder and ensure they get out of the country alive. Medieval mystery, starring Derek Jacobi, Michael Culver, John Hallam and Anna Friel
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Cast & Crew
Derek Jacobi
(Actor)
.. Brother Cadfael
Michael Culver
(Actor)
.. Prior Robert
Julian Firth
(Actor)
.. Brother Jerome
Terrence Hardiman
(Actor)
.. Abbot Radulfus
Mark Charnock
(Actor)
.. Brother Oswin
Anna Friel
(Actor)
.. Sioned
John Hallam
(Actor)
.. Lord Rhysart
Nick Patrick
(Actor)
.. Brother Columbanus
Ellis Jones
(Actor)
.. Father Ianto
Stephen Moyer
(Actor)
.. Godwin
Philip Rowlands
(Actor)
.. Bened
Steffan Trefor
(Actor)
.. Peredur
Elizabeth Fitzherbert
(Actor)
.. Apparition
Richard Stroud
(Director)
Christopher Russell
(Writer)
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Did You Know..
Derek Jacobi
(Actor)
.. Brother Cadfael
Born:
October 22, 1938
in
London
Best Known For:
His classical roles.
Early-life:
Derek George Jacobi was born on October 22, 1938, in Leytonstone, east London. His mother was a secretary and his father managed a department store. He is an only child. He became hooked on movies and dancing as a boy and played Hamlet at school, with the production later appearing at the Edinburgh Festival. During his time there, he was invited to meet an agent, who told him that, at 18, he was too young to become a star. Jacobi spent the next three years studying history at Cambridge, where he befriended Ian McKellen and Trevor Nunn.
Career:
Following acclaimed performances at university, Jacobi joined Birmingham Rep. He was spotted by Laurence Olivier, who invited him to join the National Theatre Company. He made his film debut alongside Olivier in 1965's Othello. Since then, Jacobi has continued to make acclaimed appearances on stage and screen. Among his films are The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, Love Is the Devil, Gladiator, Gosford Park, The King's Speech and Hereafter. He inspired Kenneth Branagh to become an actor and worked alongside him in Henry V, Hamlet and Dead Again. Jacobi won a Bafta for I, Claudius in 1977, starred in the medieval-set series Cadfael, played The Master in Doctor Who, is the narrator of In the Night Garden and scored a surprise hit with Last Tango in Halifax.
Quote:
'As an actor conscious that you are in a theatre, you still have to make it look as spontaneous as if you did not know that you are being watched by 1,000 pairs of eyes.'
Trivia:
He received a knighthood in 1994.
Michael Culver
(Actor)
.. Prior Robert
Julian Firth
(Actor)
.. Brother Jerome
Terrence Hardiman
(Actor)
.. Abbot Radulfus
Mark Charnock
(Actor)
.. Brother Oswin
Born:
March 23, 1968
in
Bolton
Best Known For:
Playing Marlon Dingle in Emmerdale.
Early-life:
Born in Bolton, Lancashire, on March 23, 1968, Mark was educated at Canon Slade School. He won a place at Hull University, but gave up his degree to pursue a career in acting, going on to join the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
Career:
Mark's first screen role was in an episode of 2point4 Children, and he had a bit part in Coronation Street before he found fame in Emmerdale. Prior to landing the role of Marlon, he starred alongside Derek Jacobi as the bumbling Brother Oswin in Cadfael. He first appeared in the Yorkshire-based soap in 1996 and has since gone on to become one of its most popular characters. He won a British Soap Award in 2004.
Quote:
'I'm lucky really. I play a character than gets a lot of comedy and I also, every now and then, get some great drama. So my artistic thirst is quenched by the show. But I never plan beyond the next contract. It's presumptuous.'
Trivia:
Mark and actor Dale Meeks appeared as the Blues Brothers in Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes and they won.
Anna Friel
(Actor)
.. Sioned
Born:
July 12, 1976
in
Rochdale
Best Known For:
That kiss in Brookside.
Early-life:
Born Anna Louise Friel on July 12, 1976, in Rochdale, Lancashire, the daughter of two teachers. Her brother was the boy pushing a bike up a hill in the famous Hovis advert. As a youngster Friel was regarded as a rebel for flouting school uniform rules. She was ambitious from an early age and originally wanted to be a barrister until she joined the Oldham Theatre Workshop. She appeared in eight of their productions in theatres around the country.
Career:
Friel made her TV debut in Alan Bleasdale's classic 1991 drama GBH, following it up with appearances in Emmerdale and Medics. She became a household name playing Beth in Brookside. Her first film, The Land Girls, was released in 1998. She turned down a US sitcom in 1999, preferring instead to make Rogue Trader and Mad Cows. Projects since have included award-winning play Closer and movies Sunset Strip, The War Bride, Me Without You, Goal! and its sequel. Her US TV comedy drama Pushing Daisies ran for two seasons. In 2009, she played the lead role in a West End adaptation of Truman Capote's novella Breakfast at Tiffany's. Since then she has starred in the films London Boulevard and You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, as well as various high-profile TV roles.
Quote:
'I get the most down when I'm insecure, when I'm doubting myself, when I don't see my family.'
Trivia:
Friel and her mother appeared alongside each other in the film Bathory.
John Hallam
(Actor)
.. Lord Rhysart
Nick Patrick
(Actor)
.. Brother Columbanus
Ellis Jones
(Actor)
.. Father Ianto
Stephen Moyer
(Actor)
.. Godwin
Born:
October 11, 1969
in
Brentwood, Essex
Best Known For:
True Blood.
Early-life:
Born Stephen John Emery on October 11, 1969, in Brentwood, Essex. The acting bug bit him when he was a youngster, and he proved just how talented he was during performances with local theatre groups; he later formed his own company, The Reject Society. He then studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and spent the next five years tackling stage roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Oxford Stage Company.
Career:
Moyer's TV debut came with a regular role in the ITV sitcom Conjugal Rites. He also had a recurring part in miniseries Castles and acclaimed drama The Grand. He also turned up in episodes of Casualty, Waking the Dead, Cadfael, A Touch of Frost, Midsomer Murders and Sunburn. His first film part was the title role in 1997's Prince Valiant. He's since appeared in Quills, Trinity and Perfect. Arguably his biggest British TV role came in NY-LON. He began to get noticed in Hollywood thanks to the miniseries The Starter Wife. He's played vampire Bill in American drama True Blood since 2008, although he's no stranger to televisual vampires having appeared in two episodes of Ultraviolet in 1998.
Quote:
'I'll get 10 or 11-year-olds coming up and asking for my autograph, and I say, ‘Have you seen that show?' and they go, ‘Yeah, love it.' I couldn't sit in the same room as my mother and watch that show. I mean, it's seriously racy!'
Philip Rowlands
(Actor)
.. Bened
Steffan Trefor
(Actor)
.. Peredur
Elizabeth Fitzherbert
(Actor)
.. Apparition
Richard Stroud
(Director)
Christopher Russell
(Writer)
