First broadcast 10th January 2012.

Television adaptation of Charles Dickens' unfinished 1870 novel.

John Jasper, choirmaster of Cloisterham Cathedral, in an opium den, hallucinates about strangling his nephew, Edwin Drood, in full view of his fiancée, Rosa Bud. Edwin Drood later visits Cloisterham, initially to see Rosa, before going off to his uncle's house.


Matthew Rhys as John Jasper
Rory Kinnear as Reverend Septimus Crisparkle
Alun Armstrong as Hiram Grewgious
Julia McKenzie as Mrs Crisparkle
Ron Cook as Durdles
David Dawson as Bazzard
Sacha Dhawan as Neville Landless
Freddie Fox as Edwin Drood
Ian McNeice as Mayor Thomas Sapsea
Tamzin Merchant as Rosa Bud
Amber Rose Revah as Helena Landless
Ellie Haddington as Princess Puffer
Janet Dale as Miss Twinkleton
Alfie Davis as Deputy
Rob Dixon as Captain Drood