HALLELUJAH FOR ANOTHER HOT PRIEST!

The term PTSD – which stands for post-traumatic stress disorder – has become somewhat overused in recent years; but if you want to know what the real thing looks like, then Fergal Keane: Living With PTSD (Monday, BBC2) provided a fascinating if sobering insight. I’m old enough to remember Keane when he started out in the 1980s, a fresh-faced war correspondent with a Rick Astley hair-do who reported on the Troubles in Northern Ireland and the genocide in Rwanda. Today, the hair is white and the face is cast in permanent shadow, haunted by the ghosts of the many horrors he has witnessed. A timely, and important documentary.

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If you love (as I’m afraid I do) slow, atmospheric dramas with sweeping vistas and dark, mysterious characters then this is definitely the show for you. Based on the book by Sarah Perry, it has a wonderful latevictorian vibe to it (the costumes are fabulous) and stars Tom Hiddleston as Will, the vicar of a remote village on the Essex marshes where something very peculiar is stalking the locals.

Claire Danes is Cora (left, with Hiddleston as Will), a wealthy widow with a penchant for palaeontology who finds herself drawn to the mystery and, inevitably, Hiddleston himself, who gives Fleabag’s ‘hot priest’ Andrew Scott a run for his money. But the locals, whose belief in ancient myths far outweighs their understanding of science, don’t take to Cora, particularly after a young girl is found dead.

Clémence Poésy (always a joy) plays Will’s wife, and

Frank Dillane is rather brilliant as Luke, Cora’s louche, arrogant surgeon suitor from London, who has the appropriately deathly demeanour of a man who spends his spare time cutting up cadavers. An exceptionally classy piece of drama, beautifully adapted by Anna Symon and very possibly worth the Apple subscription alone.