on BBC One on Boxing Day : Saturday Dec 26th at 9 PM
Philip Lombard (Aiden Turner), Thomas Rogers (Noah Taylor), Vera Claythorne (Maeve Dermody), AJ Marston (Douglas Booth), Dr Armstrong (Toby Stephens), Judge Wargrave (Charles Dance), William Blore (Burn Gorman), Emily Brent (Miranda Richardson), General Macarthur (Sam Neill), Ethel Rogers (Anna Maxwell Martin).
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A reckless playboy. A decrepit judge. A nervous businessman. An unhinged Harley Street doctor. A God-fearing spinster. A secretive governess. A guilt-ridden general. A remorseless mercenary. Two anxious servants.
Ten strangers, drawn away from their normal lives to an isolated rock off the Devon coast. But as the mismatched group waits for the arrival of the hosts – the improbably named Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen – the weather sours and they find themselves cut off from civilisation.
Very soon, the guests, each struggling with their conscience, will start to die – one by one, according to the rules of the nursery rhyme ‘Ten Little Soldier Boys’ - a rhyme that hangs in every room of the house and ends with the most terrifying words of all: "…and then there none"
