- Radio Times
- Review by:
- Alison Graham
One of the most terrifying things about Lightfields is the awful 1970s cardigans worn by troubled writer Vivien and her daughter Clare. Horrible baggy fawn things with dreadful patterns. Were we really so bereft of taste in that reviled era?
Still, maybe the bad knitwear will scare off the ghost that whispers in the hallways and bedrooms of this Suffolk farmhouse. In 1975, Vivien and Clare are trying to make the best of a difficult stage in their lives. But Vivien has been here before, and the siren call of the ghost starts to overwhelm her and she gets a bit like Jack Nicholson in The Shining as she pecks
away at her typewriter.
The story rolls confidently, if slowly, between three eras in the life of the house. In 1944, the Felwood family struggles to deal with the aftermath of the tragedy in last week’s first episode, while in 2012 B&B owners Barry and Lorna are puzzled by their grandson Luke and his insistence that he’s seen the Tooth Fairy.
About this programme
2/5. In 1944, the family and local community struggle to come to terms with Lucy's death and Eve suspects it was no accident, but will she find any proof in the wreckage to support her theory? Meanwhile, Vivien's state of mind deteriorates as portions of her memory return in 1975, and in 2012, Pip struggles to keep up the pretence that his sister never existed. Supernatural drama, starring Dakota Blue Richards, Lucy Cohu and Michael Byrne.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Eve
- Dakota Blue Richards
- Martha Felwood
- Jill Halfpenny
- Clare Mullen
- Karla Crome
- Vivien Mullen (1975)
- Lucy Cohu
- Paul Willard
- Kris Marshall
- Lorna Felwood
- Sophie Thompson
- Barry Felwood
- Danny Webb
- Albert Felwood
- Sam Hazeldine
- Pip Felwood (2012)
- Michael Byrne
- Dwight Lawson
- Neil Jackson
- John
- Peter De Jersey
- Lucy Felwood
- Antonia Clarke
- Tom (1975)
- Wayne Foskett
- Tom (1944)
- Danny Miller
- Harry Dunn
- Luke Newberry
- Pip Felwood (1944)
- Larry Mills
- Luke Willard
- Alexander Aze
- Cindy
- Alice Sanders
- Nick
- Chris Mason
- Vivien (1944)
- Leilah de Meza
- Vicar
- Robin Hooper
Crew
- Director
- Damon Thomas
- Executive Producer
- Kate Lewis
- Producer
- Cherry Gould
- Writer
- Simon Tyrrell
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