Fancy something a little spooky for Christmas Eve? You won’t want to miss ‘A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249’ tonight on BBC Two.
The 30-minute drama is an adaptation by Mark Gatiss of the Arthur Conan Doyle short story. An end-of-Empire chiller, ‘Lot No. 249’ stars Kit Harington, Freddie Fox, Colin Ryan, John Heffernan, James Swanton, Jonathan Rigby and Andrew Horton.
1881. Old College, Oxford plays host to three very different young academics: Abercrombie Smith, a model of Victorian manhood, clean of limb and sound of mind; Monkhouse Lee, a delicate and unworldly student from Siam; and the strange and exotic Edward Bellingham, whose 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?
‘Lot No. 249’ is an Adorable Media production for BBC Two and BBC iPlayer. The Executive Producer for Adorable Media is Isibéal Ballance and the Commissioning Editor for the BBC is Mark Bell.
‘A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249’ airs at 10pm on Sunday 24th December 2023 on BBC Two.
