A controversial American academic is found strangled after a guest lecture at Oxford, leading Lewis and Hathaway to narrow down a list of motives that includes politics, ambition and vengeance, in order to find their culprit.
Watch Masterpiece Mystery! Sunday, July 29, 2012 at 8pm.
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Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman’s unconventional team of ex detectives – Jack Halford, Brian Lane and Gerry Standing – may be eccentric, bend the rules, ignore procedure, follow their hunches and take risks, but they get results.
On this episode the team re-investigates the 1983 abduction of 18-year-old debutante Barbara
Linden-Warner. The daughter of a wealthy British arms manufacturer, Barbara was the apple of her father’s eye. But did she pay the ultimate price for her life of privilege?
Watch Sunday, July 22, 2012 at 10pm.
Watch an encore performance of Masterpiece Classic’s The Diary of Anne Frank Friday, July 20, 2012 at 1pm or 7pm on KCPT2.
Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday in June 1942. The following month she and her family go into hiding in the secret annex behind her father’s business in Amsterdam to escape the Nazi roundup of Jews. An unusually perceptive writer, Anne records events in the annex over the course of the next two years.
Eventually, the Franks (Otto, Edith, and daughters Margot and Anne) are joined by the van Daans (Hermann, Petronella, and their teenage son Peter) and by Mr. Dussel, a middle-aged bachelor. Together, the eight Jews experience the stresses of air raids, food shortages, lack of privacy, break-ins, and the perpetual fear of being discovered,
But there are joys too: birthday parties, games, weekly baths, radio broadcasts, contact with sympathetic outsiders, and in due course the encouraging news that Allied troops have landed in France and are advancing against the Germans.
Through it all, Anne observes her little world with a sensitive and lively intelligence. She falls in love, falls out of love, plays childish pranks, and displays remarkable maturity. Then one day she finds her life’s vocation — if only she can live long enough to fulfill it.
Kevin Whately returns as Inspector Lewis for a fifth season of the popular detective series. In four new episodes, Lewis and his young partner DS Hathaway continue solving cases in the seemingly perfect academic haven of Oxford.
Episode One: The Soul of Genius
When the body of an obsessive Oxford English professor is discovered ritually buried, Lewis and Hathaway are set upon a seemingly impossible quest to uncover the truth. The detectives soon find that multiple riddles are in need of solving —from an intellectual rivalry with the professor’s brother to an amateur detective’s incessant meddling. Guest stars James Fleet (“Little Dorrit”) and Celia Imrie (“Cranford”).
Watch Masterpiece Mystery! Sunday, July 8, 2012 at 8pm.
