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A Dinner of Herbs: With Tom Goodman-Hill, Jonathan Kerrigan, Melanie Clark Pullen, Billie Whitelaw. A man gets killed and his woman friend agrees to take on his surviving children. But as the decades started passing by, the children soon become aware of some painful secrets from the past.
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A Dinner of Herbs - Full Cast & Crew. Three people forge a close friendship during childhood in this sweeping drama, which is based on Catherine Cookson's novel.
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Back to Home. Catherine Cookson's A Dinner of Herbs. One night in 1851, the fathers of young Hal Roystan (Tom Goodman-Hill, Humans) and Roddy Greenbank (Jonathan Kerrigan, Heartbeat) are killed by the same man, setting off a chain of events that brings the orphan boys together into a fateful friendship with local girl Mary Ellen (Melanie Clark ...
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A Dinner of Herbs is a 2000 TV mini series based on the novel by Catherine Cookson, about a group of people who meet at a dinner party in a remote cottage and face a series of mysterious events. The series features a large ensemble cast of actors, including Tom Goodman-Hill, Melanie Clark Pullen, Billie Whitelaw, and Michael Glenn Murphy, as well as various guest stars and uncredited roles.
Description. Episode 1: When Hal Roystan's father is killed by farmer Dan Bannaman, young Roddy and his father become Bannaman's next victims after they witness him burying the body. Roddy survives but is orphaned and forges a friendship with Hal and local girl Mary Ellen.
- Alan Grint
- Billie Whitelaw
Catherine Cookson's A Dinner of Herbs. After their fathers are murdered by the same man, orphans Hal and Roddy forge a strong friendship, but their hatred for the killer follows them into adulthood, with consequences reverberating on to their love affairs and down to the next generation.
Jan 1, 1985 · A Dinner of Herbs. Catherine Cookson. 4.18. 998 ratings38 reviews. A legacy of hatred can be a terrible force in life over which not even an enduring love and all the fruits of material success may prevail. Catherine Cookson explores this theme in a major novel that will absorb and enthral her readers as irresistibly as any she has written.
