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BBC1
9.30pm
SUNDAY 28 AUGUST
Drama
Messiah 4
9:30pm - 10:30pm
BBC1 London & South East
VIDEO Plus+: 10374
Subtitled, Widescreen, Audio-described
Episode written by Terry Cafolla
The Harrowing
Ken Stott returns as the beetle-browed Detective Chief Inspector Red Metcalfe in this three-part serial-killer drama (concluding Tuesday). It's hardly sunny summer TV fare: a young woman is found locked in a van on a landfill site. In there with her are 40,000 bees that have stung her to death. Scrawled in blood on the inside of the windscreen are the words "SAVE ME". The body count rises as the killer gets more inventive, while Red and his team are perplexed in their bid to find a link between the victims. Though classier than most productions involving the torture and sadistic murder of women, much of this is still pretty revolting. But you might
find yourself compelled, thanks to Stott's charismatic presence.
Alison Graham
DCI Red Metcalfe - Ken Stott
Duncan Warren - Neil Dudgeon
Rachel Price - Helen McCrory
Vickie Clarke - Maxine Peake
Jack Price - Hugo Speer
Richard Eccleshall - Adam Kotz
Grace Eccleshall - Beatie Edney
Evelyn McArdle - Margot Leicester
Henry McArdle - Eamon Boland
Harry Fullerton - Bill Thomas
Tim Evans - Guy Flanagan
Coroner - Gil Brailey
Daniel Price - Mat Ruttle
Isabel Price - Alice Bird
Jacqueline Price - Imogen Byron
Professor Robb - Harriet Walter
Professor Uhomi - Kay Purcell
Billy Edwards - Keir Mills
Emma Giardello - Kika Markham
Franco Giardello - Ian Midlane
Mrs Giardello - June Barrie
Steph Baker - Helen Modern
Father James - Andrew McCulloch
Simon Emerson - Robert Hickson
Paula Scott - Jocelyn Barker
Tamzin Green - Laura Wilson
Nancy Roberts - Kate Lynn Evans
Sara Knightley - Charlie Covell
Forensic officer - Harry Williams
Nurse - Serena Harris
Officer - Amarjit Bassan
Foreman - Harry Miller
Solicitor - Aaron Neil
SOC officer - Derek Ezenagu
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