The actor has appeared in well-known productions including The Serpent, The Great, EastEnders, DI Ray and Without Sin, although the biggest project he’s been involved in is comfortably 2016’s Doctor Strange where he played a librarian. Weekly Top 10 Programmes: ITV HD w/e 29 April 2012". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board . Retrieved 8 May 2012.

The detectives soon learn that the Swanns have already suffered a string of troubles and losses. Phil was pensioned out of the army following an injury, his brother died in a car accident while the family farm is falling into ruin. And it transpires that Lizzie’s bereaved and envious sister-in-law Rose (played by another former EastEnders star Simone Lahbib) was embroiled in a bitter feud with Lizzie who had also clashed with her youngest daughter’s boyfriend and had had a public confrontation with a close friend of her husband’s. Weekly Top 30 Programmes: ITV w/e 3 June 2012". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Archived from the original on 15 December 2012 . Retrieved 12 June 2012. Vera is called upon when the charred remains of a body are discovered in an abattoir incinerator. The body is found to be that of DC Harry Fenton, of the Northumberland & City Fraud Unit, who had been on his final day of the job before retirement. After one of Fenton's colleagues, Jac Williams, gives Vera a useful tip-off, Vera looks into one of Harry's fraud cases.This is a story where everybody becomes a suspect, some several times over. It ends up going round in circles at time, as Vera revisits people she has already questioned.

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Vera with the rest of her team (left to right behind Vera: Kenny, Mark, Aiden and Jac. (Image credit: ITV) Always on hand to deal with the grisly task of gathering evidence at the murder scene and later investigating the cause of death, Vera uses his information to piece together the puzzle, but the two often clash. What else has Paul Kaye starred in?

The actor added, “The six new films also include an adaptation of Ann’s previous book, The Darkest Evening, which marks the 50th episode of Vera. I feel rather proud of having reached the landmark of 50 episodes, now having filmed 51 in total. I think it’s wonderful. A great achievement for everyone involved. Ten of those 51 films are based on the books by Ann Cleeves. She has created such well defined characters, allowing the other story writers to bring them to life on screen as well." The GP practice was also embroiled in drugs being illegally prescribed and Dr Yo was about to blow the whistle. Vera must unravel a tangled web of deceit between two wildly different families when the body of a teenage boy is discovered floating near a Northumberland salmon farm.Weekly Top 30 Programmes: ITV w/e 15 May 2011". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Archived from the original on 15 December 2012 . Retrieved 2 July 2011. Vera must uncover a life of secrets and lies when Owen Thorne, a well-loved family man, plummets to his death from a multi-storey car park. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. And it's no longer just viewers in the UK who have grown impatient for the last two instalments of the current run will be available to watch, Australian fans are now also searching for answers. Vera series 11's run on ITV has now been disrupted twice. There was great excitement at the end of August when, after a Covid enforced delay to filming a year earlier, the first two episodes were broadcast in the drama's usual Sunday night slot. Weekly Top 10 Programmes: ITV+1 w/e 5 April 2015". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board . Retrieved 18 April 2015.