In fact Dr Fanshawe is not on holiday. As an archaeologist, he has been engaged by the squire to catalogue a private collection of local artefacts.
Guest Stars:
Mark Letheren, Pip Torrens, David Burke, Simon Linnell
"Number 13" tells the tale of when in order to authenticate some historical papers in a cathedral town, academic Anderson stays at a local hotel in room 12, initially disregarding the lack of a number 13 as provincial superstition.
Guest Stars:
Greg Wise, Paul Freeman, David Burke, Tom Burke, Charlotte Comer
After finding an intriguing ring on a deserted beach, retired academic James Parkin soon becomes the victim of a supernatural revenge. But who is the avenger?
Guest Stars:
John Hurt, Gemma Jones, Lesley Sharp, Sophie Thompson
"The Tractate Middoth" tells the tale of when a young librarian receives a request for an obscure Hebrew book from a sinister gentleman, unaware of its contents.
Guest Stars:
Louise Jameson, John Castle, Eleanor Bron, David Ryall, Roy Barraclough
Long-running radio horror series and its veteran presenter Aubrey Judd discovers that all is not quiet in the eerie radio studio and that elements of his own past are not as dead and buried as he perhaps hoped.
Guest Stars:
Simon Callow, Anjli Mohindra, Susan Penhaligon, Joshua Oakes-Rogers, Christopher Allen
John Martin is on trial for his life. Facing him, the infamous 'hanging judge', George Jeffreys. But this is not a cut-and-dried murder case, because the innocent young girl Martin is accused of killing has been seen after her death.
Guest Stars:
Peter Capaldi, Elliot Levey, Wilf Scolding, Sara Crowe, James Holmes
A museum curator receives a very disturbing engraving that changes each time he and his colleagues look at it.
Guest Stars:
Rory Kinnear, Robert Bathurst, Frances Barber, John Hopkins, Emma Cunniffe
The inquisitive Mr Wraxhall discovers that a long-dead Swedish nobleman does not lie easy in his tomb.
Guest Stars:
Jason Watkins, MyAnna Buring, Max Bremer, Jamal Ajala, Allan Corduner
Follows a group of Oxford students, one of them becomes the collegiate talk of the town by conducting study into the mysteries of Ancient Egypt. Can the horrible sack of bones known as Lot No. 249 come to life thanks to these experiments?
Guest Stars:
Kit Harington, Freddie Fox, Colin Ryan, John Heffernan, Andrew Horton
Newlywed couple Jack and Laura move to a village where a legend says marble knight effigies in the church come alive on Christmas Eve. Jack dismisses it as folklore, but on Christmas Eve, he feels drawn to the church, leaving Laura alone.
Guest Stars:
Celia Imrie, Monica Dolan, Éanna Hardwicke, Phoebe Horn, Mawaan Rizwan