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The grieving mother who slept with Mathias was killed by a bearded guy who had a big room at the train station, with some sort of miniature version of everything and everyone. A man on a journey to recovery, a man cast into a wilderness of his own making. It doesn’t make his job any easier, but it makes him very compassionate – a sharp-edged police officer.”Of course, tortured maverick cops are 10 a penny on TV, but Richard says Mathias does have a unique selling point: emotional rawness. Also, Mathias’s relationship with his sidekick, DI Mared Rhys (Mali Harries), is still under strain. But Mathias is not a monster.

It seemed the worse I felt in my head, the better the character was coming across.” Richard’s performance, and the fact that Hinterland is available on Netflix, is turning heads here and across the pond – Richard has a US agent and has had meetings in LA.

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Detective Chief Inspector Tom Mathias arrives in Aberystwyth after ten years at the London Met. We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. It's the third and final season of the acclaimed drama HINTERLAND. “It’s pretty consistent of him being a slave to his own demons and his own way of life and state of mind,” muses the 41-year-old, who played Captain Andrew Blamey in Poldark and also starred in Lark Rise To Candleford and Bleak House. For now, however, we watch a pained Mathias try to earn redemption by seeking justice. Richard grew up speaking English, but he and his former partner, Nerys Phillips, were so eager for their sons to speak Welsh that they moved Ralff, now 10, and Ned, eight, from London to Cardiff in 2010.

“Welsh is in my life almost every day because of my children, but I’ll never think in that language,” he says. On 27 November 2013, a second series was announced by S4C.

“It’s a joy to speak when it works.”As for plot, Mathias’s troubles stem largely from the death of his young daughter some years ago, for which he blames himself. Their scenes continue, shot through with anger and grief.

Famously, each scene is filmed in Welsh and English, to appeal to the broadest audience and doubling the actors’ workload. “That’s a first. Mathias knew she was dead because the killer had put the miniature version of her in her miniature boat next to her miniature house. Hinterland begins on Wednesday 5 April at 9pm on BBC One Wales.

Having survived the fire that destroyed his home at the end of Season 2, DCI Tom Mathias returns to the heart of Aberystwyth.

But the good news is that he’s currently filming a third series of the show. “He’s not much of a smiler,” he admits. 9 things we find out about Wales' hardest detective .

“Also, I was away from my children and had split from my partner, and I wouldn’t be much of an actor if I didn’t feel those things. See below for the trailer and more photography from the show. He’s dark, handsome, tragic and beset by demons, and doesn’t appear to have smiled since Wales last qualified for the World Cup. The English-language version, with brief passages of Welsh dialogue, aired on BBC One Wales.

“The IPCC seem more interested not in the case, but what’s been happening throughout his career,” explains Richard.

“It’s a joy to speak when it works.” As for plot, Mathias’s troubles stem largely from the death of his young daughter some years ago, for which he blames himself. Hinterland — Y Gwyll (Welsh for 'The Dusk') in the original Welsh-language version — is a Welsh noir police detective drama series broadcast on S4C in the Welsh language.The main character, DCI Tom Mathias, is played by Richard Harrington.

“Mathias is his own worst enemy.

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“But we will see a lighter side to him.”  See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, The programme will also be repeated on BBC Four in May. Then married and working for London’s Metropolitan Police, after the tragedy Mathias split from his wife, Meg (played by Romanian actress Anamaria Marinca), and when a case in London went wrong, he was exiled to the police force in Aberystwyth, where he lives in a dingy trailer. “Mathias and Meg share that experience of losing their child, but the problem is that it’s painful to be with the partner you’ve shared it with and painful not to be with them. Make the most of your money by signing up to our newsletter for Richard Harrington plays main character DCI Tom Mathias UK viewers outside Wales will be able to see it on SKY channel 952, Virgin 864 or Freesat 964. It’s Richard’s commanding performance as the maverick Mathias that makes Hinterland, returning this week for a long-awaited second series, so compelling (the first series aired in 2014, with a one-off special last year). This year’s series picks up immediately from the last, when Meg turned up unexpectedly at the cop shop to see him.

DCI Tom Mathias has a degree of sympathy with all walks of lifeSet in remote Ceredigion, where the skies are as grim as the cop-hero who stands under them, the series aims to do for mid-Wales what Scandi noir did for Copenhagen. https://www.bbc.co.uk/.../profiles/100HvdTNzvcsL2sQ9qCv9ms/tom-mathias