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🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Four of Grantchester Season 10.

For actor Rishi Nair, just like his character Alphy Kottaram, returning to Grantchester for another season feels like coming home. In this episode, Rishi explores questions of identity, friendship, and found family for Alphy, as he revisits a formative part of his past and reflects on the advice given to him as a young man, “Don’t look back.”

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0:00.0	Immersive cultural enrichment, on board and on shore.
0:05.6	Freshly prepared regional cuisine.
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0:17.4	Sponsors for Masterpiece on PBS are Viking Cruises, Raymond James, and the Masterpiece Trust.
0:26.5	I'm Jace Laycob, and you're listening to Masterpiece Studio. After the roller coaster that was
0:32.5	last season, Grandchester's newest vicar, Reverend Alfie Cotterham, is settling into his new role and his new community.
0:39.8	As he builds his new life, Alfie now turns his attention to finding someone to spend his evenings with,
0:45.5	someone other than the ever-loyal Dickens.
0:48.5	It seems as if Alfie has found the perfect match in librarian Meg, who is clever, beautiful, and shares his love of books.
0:55.8	What could possibly go wrong?
0:58.1	My lord, wherever I caught room.
1:01.5	Dad?
1:03.4	Dad.
1:04.9	I was going to mention it.
1:07.2	A sense of belonging is ever present in Alfie's mind.
1:10.9	He has been welcomed into Grandchester and adopted by the village as one of their own,
1:15.3	but now he is confronted with an even deeper question of identity,
1:18.8	and must figure out his place within this new community as well as the wider world.
1:23.1	What does it mean to Alfie to be an Anglo-Indian vicar in a small British village?
1:28.6	I'm not a convert. I chose this. I grew up with it. Bible stories before bed every night.
1:36.2	And you think that what the church has made you into, that's true to who you really are?
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