He said that the song was his "private activity" and "has ... Barrington Pheloung's Inspector Morse theme included a motif based on the letters M.O.R.S.E; while composer Ronnie Hazlehurst wrote ...

The theme song was written after studying Dexter's original novels and Minghella's screenplay for the first episode. "We decided that Morse is a very melancholic character, so the tune had to be ...