Nicola Walker adapted the character of Annika from a popular BBC radio series.
TV & Movies The series follows DI Annika Strandhed & her Marine Homicide Unit in Scotland. Adapted from the BBC Radio 4 play Annika Stranded, Albi’s Annika begins tonight (August 16) and sees Nicola Walker reprise her role as Scandinavian detective Annika Strandhed – this time for TV. Now solving crimes in the Scottish highlands, Annika brings her unique and witty observations to the Marine Homicide Unit (MHU) as she takes on investigations with the help of her teenage daughter. But is the Norse detective based on a true person? Well, as real as she may feel at times, Walker’s character is in fact a work of fiction.
