What's all this about rats, and cats...?
Loved the sexist attitudes on display (well, I don't mean I love them, just it's funny how backward they are), particularly from head of department (another one of those crazy experimental departments) Angus Wright. Holli Dempsey is the clairvoyant, Naomi Battrick the murdered girl.
Matthew Slater's music is rather different to Barrington's (who died last August).
Raga is another beautifully woven script, with racial tension at its heart (it begins with a wonderful pastiche ad for The Jolly Raga Indian restaurant), whilst in the background, Morse tries to resist his friend's wife Stephanie Leonidas and Thursday is convinced the tow path murderer is still at large.
And all strands are artfully woven together in Zenana - the tow path murders, rats and cats, the clairvoyant, the affair, Thursday, Dorothea's freak accidents. It was directed by Kate Saxon and particularly beautifully photographed by James Moss.
In India, the Zenana is the part of the house reserved for the women. Ryan Gage plays Ludo.
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