Series: Comely wench

The suggestion that all's not well in the village comes fairly early on in the BBC production, The Living and the Dead, a six-part supernatural period chiller set in a bucolic corner of 1890s Somerset (BBC First, Channel 119 DStv). For a start, in the first episode, 16-year-old Harriet, a creepy but otherwise comely wench played by Tallulah Haddon, speaks in strange voices, cruelly feeds ducklings to pigs, and roams the lavishly-filmed countryside at night in a white nightgown, a garment that n...