Prepare for things that go bump in the night and for your spine to be thoroughly tingled in Requiem (Friday, BBC2, 9pm). This deliciously spooky six-part thriller starts with a jump – that’s not necessarily the startled viewer out of the sofa, but the owner of a country manor house who leaps to his death from the roof for no apparent reason. Exactly who he is and what it all means you’ll have to wait to find out, as we meet our beautiful heroine, Matilda (Lydia Wilson), a cellist of international renown whose plans to fly over to America for her next tour are brought to an abrupt halt by her mother’s sudden and entirely unexpected death. Afterwards, among her mother’s effects, she finds photographs that relate to the disappearance of a young girl who was presumed to have been abducted in a remote part of Wales 20 years before – a famous case, but Matilda is stumped as to what connection it has to her family.
So off she hares into the eerily beautiful Welsh landscape in the hope of finding answers to a thousand maddeningly teasing mysteries. Soon we’re back at the country manor house, where sinister secrets inevitably lurk behind every creaking door. Whether the ghosts are simply those of memories or manifestations of the supernatural we will find out, and if you can’t wait to learn where the story’s going, worry not, for the full series is available on BBC iPlayer at the end of the opening episode.
