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Best BBC shows: All the best dramas on BBC iPlayer
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- Liverpool-set crime drama, about a gang member who is tempted to seek a new life when he falls in love just as his criminal mentor contemplates retirement
- Drama about a fictional Dublin crime family embroiled in gangland war, starring Charlie Cox, Aidan Gillen, Clare Dunne and Emmett J Scanlan.
- Six-part drama based on John le Carré's best-selling novel. Brilliant young actress Charlie (Florence Pugh) strikes up an acquaintance with an intriguing stranger while on holiday in Greece.
- Thriller starring Gabrielle Creevy and Eve Myles. A shocking event leaves two very different women's lives intertwined by shared secrets and dangerous plots
- Drama set in the aftermath of a violent uprising in Port Talbot, and following a family forced to flee the ensuing violence. Directed by and starring Michael Sheen, with Steffan Rhodri, Mali Harries and Maja Laskowska
- Reunion
Crime/detective
Thriller about a deaf ex-convict seeking revenge, who is reunited with his estranged daughter. Starring Matthew Gurney - Australian drama based on a novel by Richard Flanagan, starring Jacob Elordi, Odessa Young and Ciarán Hinds
- Rural Scottish drama roughly based on Compton McKenzie's Highland novels. It stars Alastair Mackenzie as Archie MacDonald, a budding restaurateur in London.
- Series spin-off from the 2021 film, starring Stephen Graham, picking up six months later with Carly (Vinette Robinson) now running her own kitchen.
- Liverpool family the Mitchells deal with the aftermath of an act of sexual abuse committed by a member of their own clan. Having served his prison sentence for the crime, Joe Mitchell arrives at St Maura's, an institution which offers him a home and rehabilitation after his release. With the support of Katherine, an ex-nun, Joe undertakes therapy sessions in the hope of understanding what led him to commit the abuse. Simultaneously, his sister, Anna, is dealing with the impact that Joe's crime has had on her family - her sons, Tom and Peter, and her father, Brian. Jimmy McGovern's drama, starring David Threlfall, Anna Friel, Anna Maxwell Martin, Bobby Schofield and Mark Womack
- Jamie Walsh boards cruise ship The Sacramentum in search of his missing sister and discovers a conspiracy far darker than he could ever imagine in a comedy thriller starring Oscar Kennedy.
- Shane Meadows's first period drama, about a little-known 18th Century criminal mastermind. The cast includes established and first-time actors.
- Small Axe is based on the real-life experiences of London's West Indian community between 1969 and 1982.
- Historical drama depicting the build-up to the Battle of Hastings, following rivals Harold Godwinson and William of Normandy. Starring James Norton and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
- Period gangster drama with Cillian Murphy and Sam Neill about a family from Birmingham running a feared crime ring, making money from illegal betting, protection and the black market.
- A true-crime drama: four young gay men are murdered in similar circumstances between 2014 and 2015 in the Barking area of London.
- Ben Whishaw and Ambika Mod star in a comedy drama based on the bestselling book by Adam Kay, documenting his time as a junior doctor in obstetrics and gynaecology.
- When his identical twin goes missing, puzzle setter John 'Ludwig' Taylor assumes his identity as a detective in the Cambridge police. Comedy drama, starring David Mitchell
- Drama about America's struggle with opioid addiction, starring Michael Keaton and Will Poulter. Richard Sackler launches a powerful new painkiller, a DEA agent learns of black market pills and federal prosecutors open a case into OxyContin. With Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg, Rosario Dawson and John Hoogennakker
- Drama by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight. It follows young people drawn into the ska and two-tone scene in the Midlands during a period of social unrest in the early 1980s.
- English teacher Claire's life is changed when she starts to hear a low constant humming sound that no one else around her can hear. Despite speaking to multiple doctors, no obvious source or medical cause can be found but when she discovers one of her students can also hear the hum, they strike up an unlikely friendship. Drama, starring Rebecca Hall
- Drama based on Bernardine Evaristo's novel, starring Lennie James as a closeted gay Antiguan man in his seventies trying to pluck up the courage to ask his wife for a divorce
- DI Ffion Lloyd returns to her small hometown, Pembroke Dock, to investigate when a nurse is found dead in the woods and the crime scene resembles a case she solved 12 years ago but local officer DS Rick Sheldon is not happy about her return. Crime drama staring Elen Rhys and Richard Harrington
- Prison drama, written by Jimmy McGovern





























