3rd Series (1996) The Rose Rent (13th Chronicle) Music by Colin Towns Equipment by Andrew Ackland-Snow Produced by Steven Smallwood / Ted Childs Adapted by by Christopher Russel Directed by Rick Stroud   Character Actor Brother Cadfael Derek Jacobi Hugh Beringar Eoin McCarthy Abbot Radulfus Terence Hardiman Prior Robert Michael Culver Brother Jerome Julian Firth Brother Oswin Mark Charnock Judith Perle Kitty Aldridge Niall Smith Tom Mannion Brother Eluric Graham McGrath Miles Coliar Crispin Bonham-Carter Sister Magdalena Sarath Badel Thomas Hynde Paul Whitby Godfrey Fuller Sebastian Abineti Agatha Cliar Margery Mason Bertred Paul Trussell Branwen Bridgid Duffy Edward Perk Barna Illyes William Hynde Lajos Mezci   A young woman, recently widowed, bestows one of her properties on the Abbey of Shrewsbury. In return she expects payment: an annual rent of a single rose, to be delivered on the day of translation of St Winifred. But such a beautiful woman, and with such a substantial dowry, is an attractive proposition for would-be suitors ... and even more so if the house should revert to her. Someone will stop at nothing to prevent payment of the rose- not even murder. To Brother Cadfael, as ever, falls the enquiry into this sensational crime.   A Morbit Taste For Bones (1. Chronicle) Music by Colin Towns Equipment by Andrew Ackland-Snow Produced by Steven Smallwood Adapted by by Christopher Russel Directed by Rick Stroud   Character Actor Brother Cadfael Derek Jacobi Brpther Columbanus Nick Patrick Abbot Radulfus Terence Hardiman Prior Robert Michael Culver Brother Jerome Julian Firth Brother Oswin Mark Charnock Sioned Anna Friel Lord Rhisiart John Hallam Father Ianto Eillis Jones Godwin Stephen Moyer Bened Philip Rowlands Peredur Steffan Trefor Apparation Elizabeth Fitzherbert   In the Twelfth Century, at the Benedictine monastery of Shrewsbury, Brother Cadfael has settled bown to a quiet life in charge of the herbarium after an adventure-filled youth. But when his Prior determines to acquire the bones of a saint from a remote Welsh village, Cadfael's worldly experience bocemes vitally important, since the obsticles to the expedition include murder...   The Raven In The Foregate (12th Chronicle) Music by Colin Towns Equipment by Andrew Ackland-Snow Produced by Steven Smallwood Adapted by by Russel Lewis Directed by Ken Grieve   Character Actor Brother Cadfael Derek Jacobi Hugh Beringar Eoin McCarthy Abbot Radulfus Terence Hardiman Prior Robert Michael Culver Brother Jerome Julian Firth Brother Oswin Mark Charnock Father Ailnoth Peter Guinness Catherine Catherine Cusack Cymric Adam Barcham William / Edmund Sean Chapman Lord Giffard Tom Georgeson Mary Hermione Norris Cassale Raad Rawi Eleanor Carine Sinclair Ralf Paul Kavanagh Alfred Martyn Whitby Sergeant Niven Boyd   Christmas, 1141. Abbot Radulfus returns from London, bringing with him a priest for the vacant living of Holy Cross (known as the Foregate) - a man of presence, scholarship and discipline, but neither humility nor the common touch. When he is found drowned in the mill-pond, suspicion is cast in many directions ... and only the dedicated perseverance of Brother Cadfael can unravel the threads that lead to the murderer.

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