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.

Period drama 😱I was in my late twenties

The 80s is "period drama" territory?

I was also in my 20s.

It's only 40yrs ago😂

To me a period drama is something like Downton Abbey. I hate these kinds of programmes.
I definitely wouldn't describe MBE as a period drama.

I’m glad you don’t think it’s a period drama! I’m suddenly feeling very old.

It's definitely not contemporary though is it. Society, clothing, technology and family life have transformed. What else do you need to make it 'period'?

It depends on your interpretation of period though. Something that was filmed 10 years would have different music, fashion and technology to nowadays so would that make it a period drama?

No it's not contemporary but in I'm not sure things have changed all that much?

Is clothing so different for example?

Women were going to Uni, working, kids in childcare for example.

Mobile phones
Microwaves
Mass ownership of cars
Many people who served in WW2 still alive
Home ownership
Social housing
Public transport
Opportunities for women in education and work
Renting TVs
Mass consumerism was on its way but it was nothing like now

So many things have changed massively my children would be bewildered by some things, just as they would be for programmes set in the 60s.

It's set in the 80s not the 50s

It was very, very different!

Having lived through the 80s quite a few of the thing listed were common

Well fashions change I know, but it's not as if women were wearing bustles and corsets or not wearing trousers!

I think you have the wrong poster, I never mentioned bustles or corsets.

I’m not sure what you mean with that list. A lot of stuff on it was around in the80s.
Definitely had microwaves
Everyone I knew had cars
Girls I was at school with went to university and had good jobs and were training in various professions.
I'm not saying there haven’t been huge changes but I think the difference between the 50s and the 80s were more

Maybe it's a working class list?

E6 tonight and guess we finally find out

im saying Bernard as Adam James often plays a baddie - don’t think the gays have it in them. Too obv to be edgy and old biddies too gentle

Nope. You keep saying "old buddies". Older women get marginalised as incapable and stupid. They were young women in the war though. My money is on one or both of them. Who was the young woman depicted in the mural?
I enjoyed Ep 5 and am looking for an interesting denouement!

@Mildorado I can’t imagine either of then slicing a throat or drowning the photographer

both men study and sure could over piece a female
we will see tonight 😂

We shall see! I think Bernard is too obvious, I had thought maybe his son or daughter, but to me there's definitely a wartime connection.
I just think that calling older women "old biddies" diminishes them, not least in terms of evil!
I was also wondering about the illegitimate son of Kath - perhaps searching for who his father is?

Which one fell down the stairs

assune wasn’t kath as she was visiting her long lost son

I don’t think it’s the son

but who knows till we watch tonight 😂

true at old biddies. They seem harmless but a woman scorned and obv had to give her baby up

you may be onto something

tho seems more like a man to me killing

or is that sexist 😂

Dora fell down the stairs. She's dying of cancer. Kath had the illegitimate son.

Ah thanks @Mildorado

Oh. I was totally wrong 🙀🙀😂😂

but that’s half the fun of guessing

still suprised that an old biddy😉 got over power a man and cut his throat

She was in Special Ops. They learned many skills before they became "old biddies" 😃

Anyway.
I was right! 🏅
I enjoyed it though. I thought Kath and Dora were just a bit suspicious, and were the right age for wartime events. Plus the young woman on the mural and the whole French holiday...
It actually picked up a good pace and I liked the vicar by the end.
I'm hoping they'll do another series!