MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG - Tue 7 Oct ch 5 9pm - TV PACE NO SPOILERS

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A first-look trailer has been revealed for Murder Before Evensong (https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/murder-before-evensong-matthew-lewis-first-look-newsupdate/), the new six-part murder mystery series based on the novel of the same name by Reverend Richard Coles.

He was in IACGMOOH - I liked him

Matthew Lewis's character Canon Daniel Clement.

Daniel is the Rector of English village Champton, who finds himself entangled in a murder case when a dead body turns up in the church.

Other cast members for the series are also seen in the trailer, including Amanda Redman as Daniel's mother Audrey, Amit Shah as DS Neil Vanloo, Adam James as Bernard De Floures and Tamzin Outhwaite as Stella Harper.

Other stars featuring in the show's cast include Meghan Treadway, Alexander Delamain, Marion Bailey, Amanda Hadingue, Francis Magee and Nina Toussaint-White.

As the police move in and the bodies start piling up, Daniel is the only one who can try and keep his fractured community together... and catch a killer."

Beyond Murder Before Evensong, Coles has written four more books in the Canon Clement series (https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Reverend-Richard-Coles/author/B0DR7F4RHW?tag=radtim0b-21&ascsubtag=radiotimes-2323684) – 2023's A Death in the Parish, 2024's Murder at the Monastery and Murder Under the Mistletoe, and 2025's A Death on Location.

Lewis is, of course, best known for playing Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter film series,

Murder Before Evensong
Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton, where he lives alongside his widowed mother – opinionated, fearless, ever-so-slightly annoying Audrey – and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda.

When Daniel announces a plan to install a lavatory in the church, the parish is suddenly (and unexpectedly) divided: as lines are drawn, long-buried secrets come dangerously close to destroying the apparent calm of the village.

He shouldn’t be wearing a gold chasuable for a non Eucharistic service. Should be choir dress with black or purple stole. Definitely not gold!!

I hate it when they get details wrong. Couldn't they get a Church advisor?

I found tonight's episode much better than last week. Genuinely sense of the late 1980s. I am getting to understand how everyone fits together now. Certain vibe of Grantchester because yet again an insufferable Bishop. I'll definitely stick with it.

I gave up on it. The casting is just wrong!

Really enjoying this .

The Vicar seems a bit weak and passive, but maybe that's just a cover for someone shrewd and intelligent? The AIDS thread running through is interesting, although perhaps that was more early 80s, the fear of the so called "Gay Plague".

I’m enjoying this so far. I haven’t read the books so maybe that’s why!

Same

I think makes a real diff esp if they change stuff from books or you are expecting something

So who do we think is the killer as I haven’t a clue

E2 recap

https://reelmockery.com/murder-before-evensong-series-1-episode-2-recap/

Nor me! There is the Lord (can't remember his name), then the photographer with the bad wig. Or his wife, maybe? Edgy and his son are a bit too obvious.

I have no idea who the murderer is either but we are really enjoying it . Loving the 80's 😁

I’m actually really enjoying Tamsin Outhwaite as monster woman. I bet she had fun playing her.

She's a good character. Outhwaite and Redman are the best! Amanda Redman reminds me of Imelda Staunton in that wig.

I read the book and can’t remember who the killer was and still have no idea watching it now 😂

Obviously, was a very good book then😂😂

Yes, as @Blondeshavemorefun said, it obviously had a good impact 😂!

Yes that era of “gay plague” headlines was early 80s along with that delightful tombstone “education” series of adverts (because gods forbid any explicit information be given, even to save lives).

It was still a huge issue years later though. I have a vague memory of headlines about a major soap character returning to the series with HIV - that must have been 90s as I associate it with my years of broken nights!

Yes, that's right. The "gay plague" initial hysteria had died down, but HIV/AIDS was a huge issue for a while, until educational impacts and anti retroviral drugs.

I think its getting better, I can see the potential for it turning into a longer series a la Grantchester if they develop the characters well. I still think Redman and Shah are miscast and Bernard is too young but most of the others work quite well and I only notice the miscasts from reading the book.

It was the retrovirals which really started to help I think - it was no longer perceived as an automatic death sentence.

One of my DC once asked me what was the big deal with Diana going to London Lighthouse and hugging children on HIV wards. How times have changed. She probably single handedly did more to help acceptance and reduce ignorance than any other celeb and in spite of the Palace attempts to stop her. They were quite shocked to realise that parents would lobby schools to have children removed if they even had a relative suspected of infection.

I think it was the picture of her shaking hands with the AIDS patient in his bed that did it. Famous image. They replicated it on this programme, I noticed, with the Vicar in the Diana role.

Second episode was definitely better than the first. The boots soap flakes in the sister’s kitchen gave me a really nostalgic moment!

I believe it was Todd Carty in Eastenders was the hIv storyline.

I remember 1993/4 we were doing projects on our heroes, one of the boys wanted to do Freddy Mercury and the teacher shared her opinions that thankfully would have her fired today.

Yes and the picture of her hugging a chid hospitalised due to the illness which went immediately global even before social media. It was absolutely mega at the time. The palaces have done a lot to diminish her record over the years as part of the huge Camilla acceptance PR plan (millions on PR) but anyone close to the victims remembers her with fondness. The palace at the time were opposed to her visits (without even wearing gloves!!) but she just carried on visiting, often out of the public eye to nearby hospices.

Sad how vile opinions were in the 80’s as that doesn’t seem ages ago yet is 40yrs

Thank god views change

like on the newsreader. Shame they didn’t do s4 and 89/90/2000