Catherine Cookson's A Dinner of Herbs: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Six-part series set in Northumberland and based on the novel by Catherine Cookson. GB. A Festival Film and Television/Tyne Tees TV production. Roddy Greenbank was brought by his father to the remote Northumberland community of Langley in the autumn of 1807. Within hours of their arrival, however, the father had met a violent death, and the boy was left with all memory gone of his past life. Adopted and raised by old Kate Makepeace, Roddy found his closest companions in Hal Roystan and Mary Ellen Lee. These three stand at the heart of a richly eventful narrative that spans the first half of the nineteenth century, their lives lastingly intertwined by the inexorable demands of a strange and somewhat cruel destiny.

Series details

• Title: Catherine Cookson's A Dinner of Herbs
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama
• Premiere date: 2000-11-24
• Final broadcast date listed: 2000-12-24
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: ITV1
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 19794
• IMDb ID: tt0269157
• TVDB ID: 177351

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2000-11-24; final listed air date 2000-12-24; episode order: 6.

Source and licence

Adapted from Catherine Cookson's A Dinner of Herbs on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.