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.

"the palaces" (?) have not actively attempted to diminish any record of Diana. It stands.
There is no conspiracy.
However, this may be derailing so it's probably just best left there.

I’m referring to the multimillion pound PR campaigns (documented fairly widely in mainstream press at various times). However yes, off topic probably.

Ok. Derailing, as I said. Best left.

Me neither. Tbh I really struggled with the book

Does anyone know what the classical piano piece was near the end when Daniel was reading Anthony's notebook?
I really enjoyed the book and enjoying the series so far. I remember who the murderer is but can't remember the motive.

I think its the Schubert impromptu here:

https://open.spotify.com/track/29MPCaJXtOFrsaG8ZnYfOQ?si=6dafb53f60344714

It drove me nuts for a while trying to remember it and I’m still not sure I have the correct impromptu but I think its this.

E3 tonight

That's it, thank you so much. I'm so impressed you got it!

I thought that was a better episode, the story seems to be coming together now.

It was in the early months of 1987 that every household in the UK got a leaflet delivered about HIV and AIDS so not early 80s at all. I think that the reality that it wasn't just gay men that got HIV was becoming clear. I remember MP Edwina Currie telling business men to take their wives with them on overseas business trips rather than visit brothels. Also the contaminated Factor 8 scandal which caused the death of people with Haemophilia. It wasn't all over by any means by the timeline of this series.

Not just me I confess.

I recognised it as Schubert but not which impromptu. However I was 99% sure it had been used as an AB exam piece in the past and so I checked the folders of old pieces which narrowed it down to three. It was then easy to recognise which of the the pieces which drove me nuts during the exam practice years had appeared on the show. 😂

The tombstone through peoples doors might well have been mid 80s, and you are right that the bigger effort in education came only after “good” people were confirmed as dying from the consequences of HIV infection. I could be mixing it up with some of the other delightful communications issued early on which combined fear mongering, guilt shaming and being utterly useless in terms of guidance because it wasn’t “appropriate” to talk about gay men having sex.

I had forgotten Currie telling business men to take their wives so they didn’t “need” brothels.

It was common for families and children to be shunned and threatened if there was any suspicion of infection throughout both early and mid 80s and well beyond in many places. I remember schools being threatened if they did not remove pupils because people believed it could be caught from sharing a mug (even if washed) or a chair (and of course loos). It was a miserable time.

Someone I was at school eith worked on one of the first hospital units treating aids patients. So many of the patients were abandoned by their families do got no visitors. I even heard of church ministers being threatened by their Bishops if they conducted the funeral of an aids patient. They attitude of Daniel's Bishop in episode 2 was spot on accurate. Thankfully there were a group of church leaders who were prepared to stand by the HIV community and treat them with dignity and respect.

So did ned kill his self as thought wide had left him. Which she tech had. Or did he get killed

egsy is too obvious with his knife. If he has a knife he wouldn’t need secateurs

I really haven’t a clue who did it

not sure of what the point of the old sisters are

unless one is the mum of Harry ?

Recap e3

https://reelmockery.com/murder-before-evensong-series-1-episode-3-recap/

I thought Ned in the book was much older as he had 2 grown up daughters unless I'm confusing him with somebody else

I've not read the book. I thought the photographer with the bad wig had been murdered, was it suicide?
The 2 elderly sisters are up to no good.
Edgy is too obvious, I agree.
The recovering alcoholic organist?

Adam James is often a baddie so maybe him

think ned was killed as was a photographer and the killer maybe thought he had snapped something

I’m enjoying this, I love a murder mystery and anything set in the 80’s. Daniel isn’t particularly likeable, not sure if that’s the character or the acting. Loving Amanda R and Tamsin O. I thought the lord’s daughter was his wife at first. Looking forward to the next episode.

I like the Adam James as a baddie theory.

In terms of HIV/Aids, although the tombstone leaflets were mid eighties, a lot of the celebrity deaths that we think of came later, so we perhaps misremember the timing. I nursed my first patient known to have it in 1988, but the one that affected me the most was a few years later. I cared wife of a Royal Navy Sailor in her early thirties in her final days and remember being so upset at how unfair it was that she was dying so young.

Is he the Lord of the Manor? I was wondering if he was a bit obvious with the art work and the son involved in the fraud.
My money is on one or both of the elderly sisters. They're up to no good 🙄

The fact it keeps us guessing means it is good

Yes, I'm enjoying it.

I think I can remember the culprit but my lips are sealed obviously 🤭

I’m finding it quite boring. Left it on as background