Nicholas Urfe, a British graduate, works from his monotonous life to take up a teaching post on the tiny Greek isle of Phraxos. There he matches the enigmatic number of Maurice Conchis, and slowly gets drawn right into a world full of unusual encounters and psychological techniques on Conchis’s property at Bourani.

When Conchis introduces Nicholas towards the enchanting and mysterious Lily Montgomery, reality and illusion begin to intertwine. But what unusual game is certainly Conchis playing with Nicholas? And, nowadays coloured by artifice and deception, who’s really telling him the reality?

First published in 1965, John Fowles’s novel The Magus shortly gained cult status. Today acclaimed dramatist and screenwriter Adrian Hodges (My Week with Marilyn, The Go-Between, Peter and Wendy, The Musketeers, Survivors, Primeval) has adapted the book for this new dramatisation starring Tom Burke (Battle and Peacefulness, The Musketeers) as Nicholas Urfe, Charles Dance (AND There Were non-e, Video game of Thrones) as Maurice Conchis, and Hayley Atwell (Agent Carter, Brideshead Revisited) as Lily.

Produced and aimed by Heather Larmour.