- Radio Times
- Review by:
- Alison Graham
If, like me, you’re a sucker for a haunted house mystery, if you love anything with disembodied voices, doors opening by themselves and inexplicable power cuts, then this is for you.
Lightfields is set in a Suffolk farmhouse and, like its predecessor Marchlands, we follow three sets of inhabitants through different eras. In 1944 a naive young country girl starts an affair with a handsome, Daniel Craig-lookalike GI, in 1975 a writer with her teenage daughter flees a crumbling marriage, while in 2012 a couple run a B&B while caring for their grandson.
The three strands are neatly interwoven while the story throws out hints at associations with the house’s tragic past. To say any more would spoil the fun, so just switch off the lights and cuddle a cushion.
About this programme
1/5. New series. Follow-up to supernatural drama Marchlands, focusing on three families living in the same farmhouse in different decades and connected by the mysterious death of a girl. The story opens in 1944 with the aftermath of a fire that devastates Lightfields' hay barn. In 1975, a woman is forced to confront repressed childhood memories of her time as an evacuee in the area, and in 2012 a couple who have moved into the property are haunted by a restless spirit. Starring Jill Halfpenny, Sam Hazeldine, Dakota Blue Richards, Lucy Cohu, Karla Crome, Danny Miller and Kris Marshall.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Luke Willard
- Alexander Aze
- Pip Felwood (2012)
- Michael Byrne
- Lucy Felwood
- Antonia Clarke
- Vivien Mullen (1975)
- Lucy Cohu
- Clare Mullen
- Karla Crome
- Tom (1975)
- Wayne Foskett
- Martha Felwood
- Jill Halfpenny
- Albert Felwood
- Sam Hazeldine
- Dwight Lawson
- Neil Jackson
- Paul Willard
- Kris Marshall
- Nick
- Chris Mason
- Vivien (1944)
- Leilah de Meza
- Tom (1944)
- Danny Miller
- Pip Felwood (1944)
- Larry Mills
- Harry Dunn
- Luke Newberry
- Eve
- Dakota Blue Richards
- Cindy
- Alice Sanders
- Barry Felwood
- Danny Webb
- Lorna Wade
- Sophie Thompson
Crew
- Director
- Damon Thomas
- Executive Producer
- Kate Lewis
- Producer
- Cherry Gould
- Writer
- Simon Tyrrell
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