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RISHI NAIR & DAISY COULAM EPISODE 8, GRANTCHESTER SEASON 9

Released August 4, 2024August 4, 2024    32:03

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WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Grantchester Season 9.

Reverend Alphy Kottaram could be described as a “glass half full” kind of guy.
And this season, that optimistic outlook has been repeatedly put to the test.
Today, we’re joined once again by lead actor Rishi Nair, and Grantchester writer
and creator Daisy Coulam to look back on this transformational season, and maybe
peek into the future of the next.

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TRANSCRIPT

This script has been lightly edited for clarity.

 

Jace Lacob: I’m Jace Lacob, and you’re listening to MASTERPIECE Studio.

Life in the sleepy English village of Grantchester is never without drama, and
this season put our beloved characters through the wringer. As if a vicar
transition wasn’t enough upset, they’ve also dealt with a fraudulent
archaeologist turned treasure hunter, multiple crimes of passion, and a crazed
conman who didn’t go down without a fight — a fight that ended with gunshots,
and some characters wounded more than others. 

 

CLIP

Alphy: It’s a woodchip. Leonard, it’s a splinter!

Daniel: It’s a bloody splinter!

 

Our new vicar Alphy Kottaram has had to weather his own Grantchester baptism of
sorts. From his racially tinged welcome to coming around to the idea of solving
crimes with Geordie Keating, this role is nothing he could have imagined. But
Alphy’s trials didn’t end there. Only a short while after coming to town, it
seems as if his days as Grantchester’s new vicar are numbered.  

 

CLIP

Alphy: Just tell me the truth, did you set me up to fail?

Bishop Aubrey Gray: Why would I do that?

Alphy: Because I’m dispensable?

Bishop Aubrey Gray: You’re being irrational now.

Alphy: Why offer me the position if there was none?

Bishop Aubrey Gray: Circumstances changed.

Alphy: Or was I always the scapegoat? Indian vicar with a common accent? Yeah,
he’s the one that’ll run the church into the ground. Yeah. Yeah, I thought so.

 

Unbeknownst to Alphy, Mrs. C fought tooth and nail to keep him in Grantchester,
and it worked. By the end of the season, Alphy has finally settled in and been
accepted into the Grantchester family. We’re left with a final shot of Alphy and
Geordie walking their dogs together after a satisfying and heartwarming Sunday
lunch at the vicarage. 

 

CLIP

Alphy: Hold on, what about the washing up?

Geordie: Eh, let the rest of the family do it.

 

Today, we’re joined once again by lead actor Rishi Nair, and Grantchester writer
and creator Daisy Coulam to look back on this transformational season, and maybe
peek into the future of the next.

 

Jace Lacob: This week we are joined once again by Grantchester star Rishi Nair.
Welcome.

Rishi Nair: Thanks for having me back.

Jace Lacob: So, you’ve wrapped up your first series of Grantchester as Alphy
Kottaram. What did you learn most from the experience, either about yourself or
your craft?

Rishi Nair: It was the first time I’ve ever worked so intensely on something in
terms of, as soon as we started this in mid-July 2023, we finished mid-November,
so five, six months, it was like 12 hours a day, every day, Monday to Friday,
for that whole period. I remember my first day actually, I had one scene, and it
was actually the first scene that we filmed when I punch Robson. And I was
probably at work for four or five hours that day. I got home and I was
absolutely shattered. And I was just thinking, I was looking at a schedule and I
was like, I don’t know how I’m going to do this. That was one scene. I’ve got
like six scenes every day from now on.

But as the season progressed and as more weeks went on, I just got into the
habit as you do, and you get into this rhythm and I kind of found my rhythm. And
I think in ways it was actually really helpful for it to be like that because,
throughout that whole kind of five, six months is just being really engrossed in
this character and this world.

And even for the first month, I remember I only listened to music from the ‘60s,
whether I was in the gym or driving to work. And obviously music from before
then in the ‘40s, ‘50s, trying to put myself in Alphy’s shoes as to what he
would be listening to, or even what sounds of music he would be hearing in that
kind of world, just to kind of put me in that mind frame. You know, you never
walk into a scene and you’re like thinking of a song or anything. But I think
subconsciously, if that kind of information is in you somewhere, I think it kind
of helps you find your feet as to where you are in that world.

Jace Lacob: It grounds you in that time.

Rishi Nair: Yeah, exactly.

Jace Lacob: So, when Episode 8 begins, Alphy is struggling to hold on to his new
position in Grantchester. And it seems as if the congregation he’s just been
given is being taken away from him. How does he reconcile this turn of events
with his glass half-full nature?

Rishi Nair: Oh yeah, he is glass half-full, but I think at this point he feels
very, very defeated. It’s probably the lowest moment we see Alphy in this
season. And we see that even though he is very happy-go-lucky and strong, we can
see that actually, he can be quite down and defeatist in this way.

The church for Alphy is everything. It’s what’s given him his purpose in life.
And the fact that in this moment he feels like the church has turned its back on
him, I think for Alphy, that is really kind of destroying. He’s really lost.
He’s really lost at this point in time and he’s trying to look for a sign from
God. There’s a scene where he’s in the church and he’s talking to God and he’s
saying,

 

CLIP

Alphy: Amazing Grace. “I once was lost, but now I’m found.” Never really
understood those words before. You found me and I don’t know, maybe this is the
first time I’ve ever felt abandoned by you. You brought me here for a reason,
I’m sure of it. So, do I fight this, or do I go? What is it you want from me?

 

Rishi Nair: And all the signs that he’s getting from people not accepting him in
the village and other kinds of signs, everything is pointing to him leaving
Grantchester and it not being the right thing for him to do. And I think Alphy
is the kind of person that has always succeeded in life against the odds. And I
think this is kind of a new situation for him and it’s quite unsettling. So
yeah, it’s definitely a tough moment for him and he’s more glass half empty at
this point.

Jace Lacob: There is a theme this series about false faith, which I think is
definitely embodied in the character of Sam, who initially seems like this
benevolent street preacher, but is revealed to be a cult leader and conman. How
is Alphy’s belief in faith tested by Sam, someone who manipulates belief in such
a damaging way?

Rishi Nair: Alphy doesn’t know anything about Sam. He just knows him as kind of
a street preacher in the beginning of the season. And it’s kind of curious as to
what’s happening. He’s not writing him off completely. He’s trying to look at,
okay, maybe this is a way to do it, because he sees that congregations are
dwindling, and he sees with Sam that they have this halfway house where he’s
doing these talks and these events and there’s a lot of young people coming.

So, I think there’s a slight bit of jealousy from Alphy there as well as to how
Sam is doing that. I think when he thinks someone is abusing or exploiting their
position, that’s kind of where we see the steel from Alphy come out. And I think
he slowly starts to see things with Sam that he doesn’t like, and that really
kind of tests Alphy.

And again, Alphy, we see this other side of him that he’s not just this
happy-go-lucky half glass full kind of chirpy guy just hopping around the
village. There is this steel. There’s a line that Daisy put in the description
for Alphy which was great, she described Alphy as an iron fist in a velvet
glove. And yeah, that sums up Alphy brilliantly. And I think we definitely see
that part of him with Sam.

Jace Lacob: So, Sam knows the pressure points to apply, telling Alphy,

 

CLIP

Sam: You’ve never felt wanted.

Alphy: Don’t even try.

Sam: Yeah, that’s it, isn’t it? You don’t know what it is to be wanted. No home,
no family, no love.

Alphy: You have no idea who I am.

Sam: I have everything that you don’t have, and you can’t bear it.

 

Jace Lacob: Has Sam seized upon a hidden truth here? Is there any accuracy to
the tale he’s spinning about Alphy?

Rishi Nair: Yeah, I think that he’s definitely hit a nerve there. I think we can
see from Alphy’s reaction that there has to be some truths in there somewhere
because it really hits a nerve. And I think it’s that classic thing, which the
character of Sam is so brilliant at, is that he finds certain weaknesses in
people and preys upon them. And that’s how he can get these people to follow
him. He’s like, I understand you, I’ve figured you out. And it’s that same kind
of thing he’s doing with Alphy there. He’s prodding him on these little things.
And he doesn’t know. There’s no way of him finding out, this was before Google
and everything. He couldn’t have Googled him.

But he’s definitely hit a nerve there. And I think he’s trying to get Alphy back
on his side, maybe. But Alphy is definitely not having any of it. And yeah,
there are a few truths in there and which ones are true and which ones are not,
I think we’ll find out in the next season.

Jace Lacob: So, Alphy is looking for a sign from God. What does the villager’s
victory, the campaign undertaken by Mrs. C, to insist that Alphy stays in
Grantchester mean to Alphy? Is there a sense that he’s found a belonging, that
he finally feels wanted?

Rishi Nair: Yeah, I think it’s very emotional for him, actually. I think he
would never have expected that coming into the parish, and all the signs before
that were pointing to him not staying. And so, when he confronts the bishop and
they have this scene in the church,

 

CLIP

Bishop Aubrey Gray: Did you put your housekeeper up to it?

Alphy: I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Bishop Aubrey Gray: Well, it was one letter a week at first. Then, once a day
from her. Then others, dozens of them increasing in number and venom. She even
wrote to the archbishop suggesting that I had acted illegally. I suspect she was
one step away from writing to the good lord himself.

Alphy: And what did they say, the letters?

Bishop Aubrey Gray: That you belong here. They want you to stay, and the
archbishop agrees.

 

Rishi Nair: I think it really touches his heart, and the fact that it was Mrs. C
that was leading this campaign. I love the relationship between Alphy and Mrs. C
in this because it’s almost like in this town of Grantchester, she’s his mother.
She annoys him, as you would with your mother, but there’s this real lovely
motherly relationship. And I think in that moment, when he finds out that Mrs. C
is the one that’s driving this force and has done it, especially after the way
he’s been with her and said that he doesn’t need her, he, in that moment
realizes he actually really needs her.

And it’s a really emotional moment. And he goes and sees Mrs. C and he just
gives her a long, big hug and just holds her really close. And there’s so much
more meaning behind that hug. She’s kind of given him a new lease of life again.
We’ve seen him so defeated before this and it’s just very overwhelming for him,
I think at this moment.

Jace Lacob: I love that hug between you and Tessa. As you say, it’s so
emotional. There’s such devotion between these two characters, such love, such
compassion. And it is like a declaration of belonging to a place, a people, to
this woman, embedded in that one act. But I love the end of the series as Alphy,
Geordie, Milburn, and Dickens walk out together, escaping the bustle of another
Sunday lunch at the vicarage. And there’s this sense of peace for all of them,
even comfort in each other’s company, the word family. What has Geordie come to
mean to Alphy at this point, and what does this place mean to him?

Rishi Nair: Yeah, I think it’s that sense of family, isn’t it? It’s so important
for Alphy. He’s such an outsider in this town and feels so alone. And I feel
like he’s someone that’s always felt alone, wherever he’s been. So having these
people here that have really accepted him, and Geordie and Alphy in that scene,
they’re in the kitchen washing the dishes, you can hear the chaos in the living
room with him playing charades and it’s this real kind of family sense, that
kind of Christmas feel that you have when you have all the family around. It’s a
moment where Alphy just realizes when they’re washing the dishes that it’s this
moment where he’s like, God, I have a family here.

And again, with the scene when they’re walking out, and it’s just this real
acceptance. It’s the same path that Alphy walks when he first arrived at the
vicarage, when he walks towards the river to go for a swim and he’s kind of on
his own and he’s looking around and he’s really optimistic about this new town.
And then obviously we go through the whole season, and we see him being defeated
and how tough it’s been for him. And then it’s so lovely again, he walks that
same path, but this time with Geordie next to him, with the two dogs just left
their home and Mrs. C and Jack and Leonard, everyone in the living room. And
it’s this real kind of full, complete moment where he feels, I actually do
belong here, which is a really lovely moment.

Jace Lacob: Rishi Nair, thank you so very much.

Rishi Nair: Jace, it’s been an absolute pleasure. Thank you so much for having
me.

 

MIDROLL – We’ll take a short break to hear a word from our sponsors and when we
return, we’ll hear from Grantchester writer, creator, and executive producer,
Daisy Coulam. 

 

Jace Lacob: And we are joined once again this time by Grantchester executive
producer and head writer Daisy Coulam. Welcome.

Daisy Coulam: Thank you very much.

Jace Lacob: So, faith has always been a hallmark of investigation for
Grantchester and Series 9 looks at false faith or how faith is misused or even
abused by cult leaders or conmen. Why was this a theme that you wanted to
explore in this series?

Daisy Coulam: Do you know, we’ve been wanting to explore the corruption of faith
since about Series 2. We always used to discuss it. There was a guy who worked
in the production office who was like, you should do a cult leader. And we were
like, yeah, we really should. But how do we do it in a Grantchester way? And
when have we earned the right to look at that? And I think by Season 9, we felt
like we’d earned the right to look at that as a storyline, but we wanted it to
be very subtle and never use the word ‘cult’, for example.

And also, there was, in that time in Cambridge, which was quite a
forward-looking place, there was a new sort of wave of looking at religion in
very different ways. And so, we wanted it to be a slow, creeping storyline, I
suppose, if that makes sense.

Jace Lacob: It is, it threads its way through this entire series. What I love is
that it begins with John Amos, or Sam, as he’s known then, as a street preacher,
who actually does inspire Leonard and Daniel, and even helps inspire Will to
make the leap to Newcastle. But he has this dark side that we slowly see
throughout this entire series, as he manipulates people into turning over money
or even killing for him. What were you looking to say with his character about
that corruption of faith?

Daisy Coulam: It was almost an adversary really for Alphy. Just this idea that
he has a very pure version of faith, which is about community. Alphy’s vision is
that we’re all welcome in church and in a way that Sam’s vision of it, he’s
saying, look at all these people that are flocking to me, but it’s been used for
ill and it’s about ego really. Basically, I’m obsessed, Emma and I are obsessed
with true crime and there are so many cults out there, so many documentaries
about so many cults. And it seems to be, the similar thread is the ego of a man
really. And it’s not about God, it’s about them. They think they’re God.

And that was what we wanted to explore really. And then we got Elliot Warren and
we’re really lucky we got him because he’s warm and sort of approachable and
then when he turns, he really turns. There’s a scene with him and Leonard where
he’s so scary! Like, proper eyebrow, you know, sort of little veins in his eyes
popping. You’re like, Oh my God.

Jace Lacob: He’s great.

Daisy Coulam: He is great. He’s really great.

Jace Lacob: So, when we talked about the character of Alphy initially, it does
seem like things played out perhaps differently than he was originally
envisioned. I remember there was a line in a script in which he did mention an
absolute nightmare of a sister. I do remember someone named Kali, maybe.

Daisy Coulam: Yes.

Jace Lacob: That was potentially her name at one point. So how did he change
then over the course of Series 9 from the image you had in mind initially when
you started conceiving the character?

Daisy Coulam: Well, in a way, he changed completely, but in a way, he changed
not at all, if that makes sense. Because he’s a person who is warm and kind and
friendly and like the vicar you would love to have. That is a given and that is
what he plays and that is what we see. And it was interesting, Emma and I sat
down with him, and this tells you how late we changed the story, we were sitting
on a truck in a field, having filmed, I think, four episodes and we were like,
we’ve had some ideas about Alphy’s backstory.

And Rishi was really cool with it and was like, no, that really makes sense to
me. Because I think all actors reach for what is playing underneath. And I think
it helped him infuse that sort of warmth with just a teeny edge, which you get
to see in the second half of the series. So yeah, he did have a sister. I think
she was written in a script at one point, but she came out because it felt too
early in a way to construct a family around him. His family is already around
him, which is Mrs. C and Leonard and Geordie.

Jace Lacob: Well, and I think if he had a sister with him, if he comes in with
someone, it removes any kind of impetus to force his belonging, to become a part
of this family, to struggle in that way, if he has someone there.

Daisy Coulam: Exactly. And this is a show, as you said, all about found families
and he’s now found his family. But will it explode in some way? Who knows?

Jace Lacob: Who knows? It’s Grantchester. Things never run that smoothly. I
mean, it’s Grantchester. The bishop has plans to get rid of Alphy, but Mrs. C
comes to the rescue. She organizes a campaign to keep the congregation in
Grantchester and to keep Alphy to boot, and the bishop is forced to relent. What
does Mrs. C’s effort mean to family, and does it come with that sense of
actually belonging, of being part of a community and a family?

Daisy Coulam: Yeah, I think Mrs. C starts her campaign in the female episode and
I think it speaks to the female way of doing things somewhat, you know, quietly
behind the scenes, with no fanfare and with no thanks really, she is changing
the world. And I think that’s sort of what we wanted to say in Episode 5, that
these women are working away, working away, keeping everything going with little
recognition. And yet, they’re sort of the silent heroes. And that’s where we
sort of felt like Mrs. C was doing this off her own back, just her and a little
typewriter and her letters, aligning her stamps and she changes things. And it
sort of forges that friendship with Alphy, which I just adore. When they hug, I
just want to be in that hug. Can I squeeze into the middle of that hug?

Jace Lacob: Grantchester sandwich. Yeah.

Daisy Coulam: Yes. I love it. Oh, wouldn’t you like to be in that sandwich?

Jace Lacob: So, my question is when Mrs. C petitions the bishop, is she
campaigning, initially anyway, for Alphy purely because of his role in the
village, the need to keep Grantchester‘s church alive, or because of who he is?
In other words, is it for Alphy himself, or does it become for Alphy?

Daisy Coulam: You know, Mrs. C is not the most welcoming I would say in Episode
3, she refers to him as swarthy and she makes some terrible faux pas, but her
heart is in the right place. I suppose she’s a product of her generation, isn’t
she, really? She’s one of those women who once she gets to know you, she likes
you kind of thing. But I think she sees that he has a place in that village and
his warmth and kindness is something that she wants to keep there. So, it is
about him.

And that last scene when he stands up for her and says, don’t throw away her
apron to the horrible vicar David. They found each other, I think.

Jace Lacob: That’s lovely. When Alphy arrives, he’s skeptical of the police,
resistant to helping Geordie, surprised to learn about Dickens, he even
dismisses Mrs. C. These are things that have been imposed upon Alphy, but by the
end of Series 9, he comes around to all aspects of his new role and embraces
these impositions. Do you see these changes in Alphy as growth, defeat, or
something else?

Daisy Coulam: Oh, I would say growth. Also, when we wrote in that he meets
Dickens, we specifically put that he likes Dickens on first sight because I was
like, no one likes a man who doesn’t like a dog. Our audience is going to hate
him if he’s in any way remotely against that dog. But yeah, I think he’s pretty
easygoing. He’s a man who’s had to adapt to all his life and I think he warms to
this place. He’s used to that initial reaction he gets and the silence in the
pub, but he wants these people who, as he says to the bishop, they deserve
better than the way you’re treating them.

I think he speaks to the underdog really and he speaks to the community and he’s
more a part of the community than I would say Will and Sidney. Will and Sidney,
in a way, their troubles sort of kept them away from the community and Alphy’s
opened him up to the community.

Jace Lacob: You put Leonard and Daniel through the ringer this season with
Daniel falling under the spell of John Amos, Leonard nearly getting shot, albeit
with a splinter. But they end the season recommitted to not only each other, but
to the larger group as well. Are they in a better place having been so severely
tested?

Daisy Coulam: Well, yes and no, I would say. I would say on the surface, Daniel
has been accepted back into that family group because that’s the thing about the
Grantchester family, you can do all sorts of things, and they will always
welcome you back. Because that’s what families do, isn’t it I suppose, they see
your foibles and they embrace you anyway. And in a way, Daniel, all he was doing
was searching for belonging. It’s sort of like The Wizard of Oz, isn’t it
really, there’s no place like home, you’ve had it all along kind of thing.

But we will continue to explore it because I think for Leonard, that’s quite a
big betrayal, I would say, for somebody to literally walk away from their life,
from you. So, there will be repercussions down the line, I think, but in a sort
of interesting and different way. We’re not going back, so Sam doesn’t reappear,
but there will be other ways to explore it.

Jace Lacob: Okay, the romance between Miss Scott and Larry. It was planted a few
seasons back, but it reaches fruition this season. First with their ill-fated
date in Episode 1, and then Larry’s even more ill-fated marriage proposal. But
after Larry gets shot, he gets a shot at the girl. How did you decide to tip
over the will they, won’t they for Larry and Jennifer Scott?

Daisy Coulam: I’ve been pushing for this for ages. Emma is a great proponent of
holding back story and sort of teasing it out. And I was like, just let them
kiss! I just want them to kiss! And she finally gave way. It felt like the right
moment that he says, seize the day, boss, seize the day, and off he goes. Larry
has found himself as a man. And I really like that she can’t even bring herself
to look at him because she’s like, damn you, I suddenly fancy you and this is
really awkward, and I don’t want to fancy you. It’s our Grantchester love story
really, and I’m very excited to explore that further in the next series. They’re
great, those two, they’re so good and they’re so lovely in real life.

Jace Lacob: The “Damn you, Larry. Damn you”, that kiss is such a great moment
for both of them, Larry because he wins over the girl and Miss Scott because she
allows herself to fall in love and she kisses him back.

Daisy Coulam: Because she’s so very closed. She’s very professional and now,
yes, she opens up her world to him and it’s sweet. They’re really best mates in
real life, those two. And so, everyone was like, is it going to be really
awkward for them to kiss? But they really went for it. It was great.

Jace Lacob: Oh my God, that’s amazing. They have such great chemistry. I love
the two of them together. So, going into Series 9, was there a plan in place to
get them together or did it happen organically while plotting if Emma was sort
of saying, you know, don’t rush this?

Daisy Coulam: Yeah, I think we were going to keep the will they, won’t they
going onwards, but something about that final episode, and I think it’s like you
say, there’s always a sort of a slightly present-y, wrap-y bow moment, and it
always feels like something presented itself in that moment when Larry walks
back in, and he’s the hero and she and she can’t face him, yeah, it felt like
exactly the right moment to break down both of their barriers.

Jace Lacob: The final scene has Alphy and Geordie out walking the dogs and it’s
clear that they’ve turned a corner. Alphy admits that he has people in his life,
Mrs. C and even Geordie, and Geordie puts his arm around Alphy. “What about the
washing up?” And he says, “Let the rest of the family do it.” What does this
final image say about their dynamic? Are they firm friends?

Daisy Coulam: They are, and we always try to think about our end image. When
Will got married and it was Will and Geordie standing in front of the church in
the garden, which was a beautiful image. And then generally we’ve ended on the
meadows with the two boys and then we were like, but we’ve done that with Will
and Geordie. So, we wanted something a bit different. And that road is so
beautiful. You’ll have to come and see it one day because it’s just so cute. And
we realized it’s the perfect length for a scene, is to walk down from the church
to the pub. So, we did it and we were all walking backwards watching that scene
being filmed, walking backwards down the street as the steady cam filmed them.
And it just felt right.

And I tell you what, there’s a really beautiful little moment that Rishi put in
there that I hadn’t really noticed before, where he sort of looks to Geordie,
there’s almost a little bit of vulnerability there, like, have I been accepted?
And it’s so beautifully nuanced. And you’re like, oh God, this is great, because
this sets them up for the next series. And this is perfect, I want to follow
these two. So yeah, it worked out beautifully.

Jace Lacob: Oh, I love that. So, Grantchester has been recommissioned for a 10th
series, which is an incredible feat. Double digits, Daisy!

Daisy Coulam: I know!

Jace Lacob: Series 10!

Daisy Coulam: Can you believe it?

Jace Lacob: It’s totally mad to me, I’m thrilled. I’m wondering what you can
tell us in the broadest possible strokes where you see the story going in Series
10. What can we perhaps expect?

Daisy Coulam: It will be a look at identity, the identity of Alphy, the identity
of the country as a whole, 1962. We’ve got loads of stuff. I’m really excited
about 10.

It was quite funny; Emma and I were stuck in a traffic jam on the way back from
filming on Series 9. And in an hour and a half, we’d sort of pretty much figured
out what we wanted to do. We were like, this traffic jam was the best traffic
jam that could possibly have been because we’d roughly figured it all out.

I don’t know what it is about this show, there’s something about it that things
sort of find their place. I don’t know, maybe it’s divine intervention,
something. It always finds its shape and it’s quite easily without too much. I
mean, there is some struggle, there’s always struggle, but maybe I’ll just
forget that bit.

Jace Lacob: You just elide over that. It’s just the good times. The happy place.

Daisy Coulam: Yeah, the happy place. Exactly.

Jace Lacob: Daisy Coulam, thank you so very much.

Daisy Coulam: Thank you. Thank you. It’s always a pleasure.

 

And with that, we conclude another cozy season of Grantchester. But not to
worry, there are plenty more mysteries to solve.

 

CLIP

Klaus: So.

Susan: Good morning, Klaus.

Klaus: Atticus Pünd — you have considered my offer?

Susan: Yes.

Klaus: And?

Susan: It’s not enough.

Klaus: I don’t agree.

Susan: Well, you wouldn’t, would you?

Klaus: Come on Susan, we’re old friends. We don’t need to haggle.

Susan: Oh, I thought that’s what I was here for.

 

The rebroadcast of Magpie Murders begins next week, August 11th at 9pm on
MASTERPIECE on PBS. 

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RISHI NAIR & DAISY COULAM EPISODE 3, GRANTCHESTER SEASON 9

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TOM BRITTNEY SAYS FAREWELL, GRANTCHESTER SEASON 9

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DAISY COULAM AND TOM BRITTNEY WRAP UP — AND LOOK AHEAD

MASTERPIECE STUDIO  |41:20


TESSA PEAKE-JONES TACKLES A TOUGH SEASON

MASTERPIECE STUDIO  |27:25


CASTING DIRECTOR ALEX IRWIN MAKES MURDERERS EVERY EPISODE

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TOM BRITTNEY HEADS BEHIND THE CAMERA FOR A CHANGE

MASTERPIECE STUDIO  |33:38


DAISY COULAM SEES A TONAL SHIFT IN ‘GRANTCHESTER’ SEASON SEVEN

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TOM BRITTNEY AND DAISY COULAM GEAR UP FOR SEASON SEVEN

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MISS SCOTT — AND MELISSA JOHNS — BRING CHARM AND WIT IN SPADES

MASTERPIECE STUDIO  |36:59


AL WEAVER STILL LEARNS FROM PLAYING LEONARD FINCH

MASTERPIECE STUDIO  |35:48


EXECUTIVE PRODUCER EMMA KINGSMAN-LLOYD KNOWS WHERE ALL THE BODIES ARE BURIED

MASTERPIECE STUDIO  |31:32


BONUS: GRANTCHESTER WRITERS’ ROOM REUNITES FOR FIFTH SEASON FINALE

MASTERPIECE STUDIO  |49:07


ROBSON GREEN AND TOM BRITTNEY TOAST TO A THRILLING FIFTH SEASON

MASTERPIECE STUDIO  |33:22


SHOCKED? DAISY COULAM THOUGHT YOU’D BE

MASTERPIECE STUDIO  |32:39


LAUREN CARSE HAS THE INSIDE SCOOP ON ELLIE HARDING

MASTERPIECE STUDIO  |36:33


CHRISTIANA EBOHON-GREEN BRINGS CLASSIC CINEMATIC FLAIR BEHIND THE CAMERA

MASTERPIECE STUDIO  |36:07


OLLIE DIMSDALE SEES BRIGHT THINGS IN DANIEL MARLOWE’S FUTURE

MASTERPIECE STUDIO  |26:27


TOM BRITTNEY RIDES BACK INTO THE VILLAGE GREEN

MASTERPIECE STUDIO  |41:30


AL WEAVER AND TESSA PEAKE-JONES REMAIN FRIENDS, ON AND OFF SET

MASTERPIECE STUDIO  |33:04


KACEY AINSWORTH’S CATHY KEATING MAKES HER OWN WAY IN GRANTCHESTER

MASTERPIECE STUDIO  |40:17


TOM BRITTNEY IS MORE THAN JUST ANOTHER DASHING VICAR

MASTERPIECE STUDIO  |30:59


ROBSON GREEN REMINDS US THAT GEORDIE’S NOT GOING ANYWHERE

MASTERPIECE STUDIO  |30:53


DAISY COULAM PREVIEWS A SEASON OF CHANGE IN GRANTCHESTER

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GRANTCHESTER REVEALS NEW CHARACTER, NEW SEASON THEME

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WRITER DAISY COULAM UNPACKS AN EMOTIONAL SEASON OF GRANTCHESTER

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TESSA PEAKE-JONES IS A SMILER; MRS. MAGUIRE IS NOT

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AL WEAVER’S LEONARD FINCH IS STILL LEARNING TO LOVE HIMSELF

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WRITER DAISY COULAM FINDS HUMOR IN GRANTCHESTER’S NEW SEASON

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KISS & MAKE UP: GRANTCHESTER’S SEASON FINALE

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BONUS: THE DARK SIDE OF GRANTCHESTER

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“TOO LATE” FOR SIDNEY AND AMANDA?

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SECRETS OF GRANTCHESTER WITH AUTHOR JAMES RUNCIE

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PICNICS & MURDERS… GRANTCHESTER IS BACK!


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