MIDSOMER MURDERS
FOUR FUNERALS & A WEDDING
Main Characters - Roles
Henry Marwood - Dominic Jephcott
Henry runs Hermitage Farm and is
crippled by debt. He's also chairman of all-male group the Riders of
Broughton, but has a relaxed, patrician attitude. His wife Vivienne
has just died after a long battle with MS.
Roland Marwood - Joseph Kennedy
Henry's son Roland has an attitude
that is far from relaxed and frequently fuelled by drink. His avowed
misogyny has been reinforced by the recent death of his mother.
Rev Anthony Gant - Richard McCabe
Henry's gay half-brother is the
rector of Broughton. He's an arrogant, obsessive, acid but
intelligent high church cleric, keen on smells and bells - but
violently opposed to the ordination of women.
Doctor O'Dowd - Struan Rodger
Now in his 60s, Kieron O'Dowd is
the local GP who assuages the pain of unrequited love with whiskey.
He wants to see the battle of the sexes end in truce and harmony.
Peggy Aynscombe - Sian Thomas
Unmarried Peggy is president of
the Skimmington Society and the most powerful person in the village.
Dynamic and charismatic, she has steered Aynscombe Farm to
spectacular economic success.
Fiona Aynscombe - Jessica Brooks
Peggy's daughter resents her
mother's low-key response to a legal challenge from the Riders of
Broughton. She is a firebrand feminist true to the Skimmington tradition.
Mildred Danvers - Ann Morrish
Now in her 70s, Mildred left
Broughton before the fire and lived an exotic life of foreign travel.
She returns to become the Skimmingtons' Honorary President.
Lorna Hastings - Sandra Voe
Lorna lost her husband and infant
son to the flames of the farm fire but has since become friend and
confidante to Peggy. She chairs the Skimmington Society.
Cathy Hewlett - Hattie Ladbury
One of the new breed of ordained
women, Cathy was appointed deacon to counter the rampant misogyny of
the rector. Her radical feminism is muscular and aggressive.
Archdeacon Able - Shaughan Seymour
A middle-aged friend of Mildred
Danvers, the Archdeacon had some influence in the appointment of both
Gant and Cathy to the ministry in Broughton.
Alan - Andrew Hawkins
Gravedigger Alan was orphaned as
an infant by the fire at Marwood Hall. He seeks solace in
communication with the dead souls of the victims of that disastrous event