A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No 249

BBC Four

12:20 AM to 12:50 AM

Tuesday 17 December

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It's 1881 and Old College, Oxford, plays host to three very different young academics. Abercrombie Smith is a model of Victorian manhood, Monkhouse Lee is a delicate and unworldly student from Siam, while the strange and exotic Edward Bellingham's arcane research into Ancient Egypt is the talk of the campus. Could Bellingham's unnatural experiments bring the breath of life to the horrifying bag of bones tagged Lot No 249? Mark Gatiss's adaptation of the Arthur Conan Doyle short story, starring Kit Harington, Freddie Fox and Colin Ryan