BBC One s erotically charged TV adaptation of Black Narcissus, which stars Bond girl Gemma Arterton as Sister Clodagh and newcomer Aisling Franciosi as Sister Ruth, has the critics raving.
The story of nuns with buried passions in an isolated palace-turned-convent high in the Himalayas a palace that was once the home of concubines is brilliantly conjured.
Its writer, Amanda Coe, who was behind the gripping TV adaptation of Apple Tree Yard, has described the drama as The Shining with nuns after the Stanley Kubrick horror film.
BBC One s erotically charged TV adaptation of Black Narcissus comes with the sensual pedigree of the original 1947 film starring Kathleen Byron (pictured)