Waking The Dead – Wren Boys

03 January, 2007 by The_Boss

Tara Fitzgerald joins the team
as new forensic scientist Eve

BBC One Sunday 7th January 2007 9:00pm - 10:00pm and Monday 8th January 9:00pm - 10:00pm

Tara Fitzgerald joins the cast of the international, Emmy Award-winning Waking The Dead, which returns to investigate more dark, gripping tales of murder mystery.

Tara plays Eve, the team's new forensic scientist, who brings with her the resources of the UK's first and only Forensic Anthropology Observation Unit – or Body Farm, as it's commonly known – a unique facility providing controlled studies of human decomposition to determine time and manner of death.

In tonight's opener – the first of a two-parter – Boyd and his Cold Case team, Grace, Spence, Stella and Eve, investigate the death of a teenage boy found on a building site some years ago. Crucial evidence links the body found on the site with a badly injured teenager dumped at a hospital late one night. Boyd dispatches an unwilling Stella to dismantle a Catholic shrine close to the crime scene for evidence. The shrine and body dumpsite are on land owned by the nearby Abbey which is on a dissolution order. Boyd and his team find themselves investigating pagan and druid rituals, stigmata, Irish travellers and bare-knuckle boxing.

Trevor Eve plays Boyd, Sue Johnston plays Grace, Wil Johnson plays Spence, Felicite du Jeu plays Stella and Tara Fitzgerald plays Eve. The cast also features Daragh O'Malley as Sean Killigan Snr, Carey Mulligan as Sister Brigid, Tony Scannel as Papa McDonagh and Gabrielle Reidy as Nana McDonagh.



Special guest stars to look out for this series include: Alex Jennings, Polly Walker, Graham Crowden, Alison Doody, Oliver Ford Davies, James Fox, Jemma Redgrave, Michelle Forbes and Dame Eileen Atkins.

To complement the new series of Waking The Dead, the BBC is launching a groundbreaking interactive service which is available via broadband and the Red button. By pressing the Red button, or visiting the Waking The Dead website, viewers can discover more about the facts behind each story from the team of experts in forensic science and psychology who work alongside the production team.