Monday, 31 August 1 airing
00:15
Channel 4
Three Thousand Years of Longing
A lonely scholar on a trip to Istanbul discovers a djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. When she refuses to engage, knowing all the stories about wishes backfiring on the wisher, he tries to convince her by telling fantastical stories of his past. Director George Miller's fantasy romance based on a short story by AS Byatt, starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba
