Part 4 – Tim Coghlan completes his series on the filming of Inspector Morse at Braunston with a look at some real life crime mysteries on the canal as well as saying goodbye to Morse himself, the much-loved actor, John Thaw.
There is an old saying, that the only thing certain about life is its uncertainty, a sort of variation on the Greek philosopher’s ‘All I know is that I don’t know’. Once the canal scenes for the Morse episode, The Wench is Dead had been filmed in June 1998, with a little help from myself and my canal friends, I was convinced that I had seen the last of the Inspector Morse circus…