Editing Richard Briers (section)

==Later career==
After 1990, he appeared in ''[[Lovejoy]]'', ''[[Inspector Morse (TV series)|Inspector Morse]]'', ''[[Midsomer Murders]]'' "[[Death's Shadow (Midsomer Murders)|Death's Shadow]]" as Stephen Wentworth in 1999, ''[[Doctors (2000 TV series)|Doctors]]'', ''[[New Tricks]]'', ''[[Kingdom (2007 TV series)|Kingdom]]'', and ''[[If You See God, Tell Him]]''. Richard Briers starred as Hector in the first three series of ''[[Monarch of the Glen (TV series)|Monarch of the Glen]]'' from 2000 to 2002 (and as a guest in series 7 in 2005), a role which saw him return to the limelight. He contributed "[[Sonnet 55]]" to the 2002 [[compilation album]], ''[[When Love Speaks]]'', which features famous actors and musicians interpreting Shakespeare's [[sonnet]]s and play excerpts. In 2005, he appeared alongside [[Kevin Whately]] in ''[[Dad (2005 film)|Dad]]'', a TV Film made by [[BBC Wales]] exploring issues of [[elder abuse]]. In 2006, he made an appearance in an episode of ''[[Extras (TV series)|Extras]]'', and portrayed the servant Adam in Kenneth Branagh's 2006 Shakespeare adaptation, ''[[As You Like It (2006 film)|As You Like It]]''. He made a cameo appearance as a dying recluse in the 2008 ''[[Torchwood]]'' episode "[[A Day in the Death]]".<ref>{{cite web|title=A new face for Torchwood and a new look for Martha |publisher=BBC Press Office |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/08_august/15/torchwood.shtml |access-date=18 February 2013 | date = 15 August 2007}}</ref> In 2009 he appeared in Agatha Christie's Marple "Why didn't they ask Evans?" as Wilson.

On 17 December 2000, Briers was the guest on [[BBC Radio 4]]'s ''[[Desert Island Discs]]''. Among his musical choices were "Di quella pira" from ''[[Il trovatore]]'' by [[Giuseppe Verdi]], "I Feel A Song Coming On" by [[Al Jolson]] and "[[On the Sunny Side of the Street]]" by [[Louis Armstrong]]. His favourite piece was the Organ Concerto in F major "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale" by [[George Frideric Handel]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00949dk|title=Richard Briers, Desert Island Discs – BBC Radio 4|publisher=BBC}}</ref>