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Cast: Jack Lowden, Gavin Mitchell, James Boal, Robert Jack, Helen McKay, Nicola Roy, Maureen Carr, Kyle Gardiner, Ron Donachie, Stuart McQuarrie, Simon Donaldson, Andy Clark, Jimmy Chisholm, James Rottger, Lucianne McEvoy, Paul Young.

Even after two centuries, the names Burke and Hare are enough to spark dialogue and conversation in the darkest corners of any Edinburgh public house; it is in the collective DNA of the city, the fear that persists as the cold rain hits the streets of the narrow old town that human life is considered so cheap that murder for profit is an acceptable thought within the criminal fraternity, and those to whom we entrust our end of life care to, almost always those of a professional class.