Allam’s Thursday returns ... Abigail Thaw plays Dorothea Frazil, journalist and editor at the Oxford Mail newspaper and good friend to Endeavour Morse. Thaw is the daughter of the late John ...

Her character’s name is actually a play on her own surname, with De-Frazil meaning to de-ice, or thaw something. The Home Office Pathologist, Dr DeBryn has a wry sense of humour, and appeared as ...