Yay! Other people like Brother Cadfael, too!
I’ve seen a couple of the BBC television series, and I agree that they definitely found the right person to portray Cadfael in Derek Jacobi. Did they make a show out of every single book? I’ve always wondered that.
Thirteen of the twenty books have been adapted for the television, to wit
One Corpse Too Many
The Sanctuary Sparrow
The Leper of St Giles
Monk’s Hood
The Virgin in the Ice
The Devil’s Novice
A Morbid Taste for Bones
The Rose Rent
St Peter’s Fair
The Raven in the Foregate
The Holy Thief
The Potter’s Field
The Pilgrim of Hate
(Transmitted in that order. Last three went out in 1998, so who knows? they may finish the series yet.)
(BTW, it’s an ITV rather than a BBC series.)
I very much enjoyed the Brother Cadfael series, and they are the type of books that I know I can pick back up again for an entertaining re-read.
I was very sorry to hear that Edith Parteger (a/k/a Ellis Peters) had died, because I knew that meant no more Brother Cadfael books.
Me too, Jodi, when I read the back book comments on the last book in the series…dammit, and just when that book had more loose ends!