2nd Series (1995) The Devil’s Novice (8th Chronicle) Music by Colin Towns Equipment by Andrew Ackland-Snow Produced by Steven Smallwood / Ted Childs Adapted by by Russel Lewis Directed by Herbert Wise   Character Actor Brother Cadfael Derek Jacobi Hugh Beringar Eoin McCarthy Abbott Radulfus Terence Hardiman Prior Robert Michael Culver Brother Jerome Julian Firth Leoric Aspley Julian Glover Canon Eluard Ian MacNeice Peter Clemence Ian Redding Sergeant Warden Albie Woodington Meriet Christien Anholt Rosanna Chloe Annett Janyn Daniel Betts Tristan Patrick Toomey Harald John Dallimore Isobel Louisa Milwood-Haight Brother Oswin Mark Charnock Jahan Gabor Urmaithe Leper   In the autumn of 1140 the Benedictine monastery at Shrewsbury finds its new novice Meriet Aspley a disturbing presence. Meek and biddable by day, his sleep is rent with nightmares so violent as to earn him the nickname of 'Devil's Novice'. Can Meriet be involved in the nearby disappearance of a superior prelate? As events take a sinister turn it falls to Brother Cadfael to detect the truth behind the young man's predicament.   The Virgin In The Ice (6th Chronicle) Music by Colin Towns Equipment by Andrew Ackland-Snow Produced by Steven Smallwood Adapted by by Russel Lewis Directed by Malcolm Mowbray   Character Actor Brother Cadfael Derek Jacobi Hugh Beringar Eoin McCarthy Abbot Radulfus Terrence Hardiman Prior Robert Michael Culver Brother Jerome Julian Firth Brother Oswin Mark Charnock Evrard Boterel Valentine Pelka Olivier de Bretagne Robert Cavanah Le Gaucher Ronan Vibert Ermina Hugonin Amelia Curtis Sergeant Warden Albie Woodington Yves Hugonin William Mannering John Druel Guy Oliver-Watts Reyner Dutton Tim Barker Sister Hilaria Eva Madarasz   Winter 1139, and raging civil war has sent many refugees fleeing north from Worcester, among them two orphans of a noble family and their companion, a nun. But they seem to have disappeared somewhere in the wild winter landscape of frost and snow - and Cadfael sets out to find them.   Saint Peter’s Fair (4th Chronicle) Music by Colin Towns Equipment by Andrew Ackland-Snow Produced by Steven Smallwood Adapted by by Christopher Russel Directed by Herbert Wise   Character Actor Brother Cadfael Derek Jacobi Hugh Beringar Eoin McCarthy Abbot Radulfus Terrence Hardiman Prior Robert Michael Culver Brother Jerome Julian Firth Brother Oswin Mark Charnock Emma Vernold Jacqueline Deffarary Ivo Corbiere Banjamin Pullen Geoffrey Corviser Tim Wylton Philip Corviser Brendan O'Hea Glover of Shotwick Richard Clifford Fowler Terry John Falconer Tony Spooner Thomas of Bristol Roger Ashton-Griffiths Warin Tony Kirwood Roger Dodd Rupert Holliday-Evans Sergeant Warden Albie Woodington Crone Hilary Sesta Wat Roy Heather   The great annual Fair of Saint Peter at Shrewsbury, a high point in the city's calendar, attracts merchants from far and wide to do bisiness. But when an unseemly quarrel breaks out between the local burghers and the monks from the Benedictine monastery, a riot ensues. Afterwards a merchant is found dead - and Brother Cadfael is summoned from his peaceful monastery herb-garden to test his skills as a detective once more.

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