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The Body Snatcher

Duration: 1 hour, 19 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England

An adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of grave-robbing in 19th-century Edinburgh. A doctor buys corpses from Gray, a menacing procurer of cadavers, who turns to murder to maintain his supply - delivering the body of a young woman hours after the doctor has seen her alive. Realising the error of his ways, the medical man attempts to dispose of the grave robber, with macabre results. Show less

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