10pm Friday THE WOMAN IN WHITE – Psychological Thriller - When a young man encounters a ghostly woman dressed all in white on a moonlit road, he is drawn into a web of intrigue that will transform his life forever.
Walter Hartright is a young drawing master who encounters a ghostly woman in a white dress on Hampstead Heath. He offers the mysterious woman his help, and later finds out she escaped from a lunatic asylum. After taking up a teaching position in Cumbria, Walter learns of a chilling connection between the mysterious woman in white and his pupils, Laura Fairlie, portrayed by Olivia Vinall, and Marian Halcombe, portrayed by Jessie Buckley.
![Programme Name: The Woman in White - TX: n/a - Episode: n/a (No. 1) - Picture Shows: Anne (OLIVIA VINALL) - (C) Origin Pictures - Photographer: Steffan Hill](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/b8339be/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1920x1080+0+0/resize/880x495!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F2a%2Ff1%2F9016577a48f59b308fbab00ee1f7%2Fwiw1920.jpg)
![Ben Hardy as the artist Walter Hartright in The Woman in White.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/55ed82c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1920x1080+0+0/resize/880x495!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F1b%2F47%2Ff723ad7c41daa7ba73051656c5b1%2Ftwiw1920.jpg)
In the premiere episode, young drawing master Walter Hartright encounters a haunting woman dressed in white. He offers to help her, but is surprised to learn she escaped from a mental institution. The next day, Walter leaves London to take up a teaching post with the Fairlie family in the village of Limmeridge, Cumbria. Walter begins to notice a startling resemblance between her and his new pupil, the beautiful Laura Fairlie and is frequently consumed by the eerie sense of being watched.