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Cadfael: The Potter's Field DVD Prebook 7/16; Street 8/13 Acorn Media, Period Drama, $19.95, NR, approx. 75 min. Stars Sir Derek Jacobi.
When the decaying body of a dark-haired woman is accidentally unearthed in the potter's field, everyone at Shrewsbury Abbey wants to know who she is and who buried her, so lovingly yet in unconsecrated ground.
Most assume it is Generys, the wife of the former potter Ruald, who a year earlier gave up his worldly life for the cloisters of the abbey against her vehement objections. While the church would provide Generys with shelter and food after Ruald moved to the abbey, she is a young woman and...