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Best BBC shows: All the best dramas on BBC iPlayer
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Historical drama about Henry VIII's adviser Thomas Cromwell. Adapted from Hilary Mantel's Booker prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, it stars Mark Rylance and Claire Foy.
Tracy Ifeachor and Sinead Keenan star in a crime drama following the arrest of a student from one of Britain's wealthiest families concerning the disappearance of a classmate.
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
Drama following five graduates who join the world's most preeminent financial institution in the aftermath of the 2008 collapse. Starring Harry Lawtey
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 a fictional Dublin crime family embroiled in gangland war, starring Charlie Cox, Aidan Gillen, Clare Dunne and Emmett J Scanlan.
Small Axe is based on the real-life experiences of London's West Indian community between 1969 and 1982.
Drama exploring the question of sexual consent in contemporary life, written by and starring Michaela Coel.
Mystery, starring Ruth Wilson as a sleepwalking woman who wakes to find a corpse in her house. The unravelling mystery threatens to expose Ireland's darkest secrets
An Irish couple vanish from a small New Zealand town and Irish detective Theo Richter teams up with Kiwi officer Diana Huia to find them. Thriller, starring Richard Flood and Acushla-Tara Kupe
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.
Military drama with Lacey Turner. Six months on from completing her initial training, Molly is deployed to Afghanistan, but makes a bad first impression and meets a face from her past.
A true-crime drama: four young gay men are murdered in similar circumstances between 2014 and 2015 in the Barking area of London.
Crime drama by Sally Wainwright, with Sarah Lancashire as a police sergeant in the Yorkshire valleys battling her own demons when she becomes involved in the hunt for a kidnapped girl.
Drama bringing iconic detective Sherlock Holmes firmly into the 21st century. Benedict Cumberbatch plays the astute detective, with Martin Freeman as his companion Dr Watson.
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
Drama, starring Annette Bening and Sam Neill
Crime thriller with Adrian Dunbar, Martin Compston and Vicky McClure about a police anti-corruption unit led by Superintendent Ted Hastings. Each series follows one multi-stranded inquiry.
Two hard-up strangers stumble across a haul of cocaine on a shipwrecked boat. After agreeing to sell it and split the cash, they become entangled with police, masked hitmen and a sharp-suited gangster known as 'The Tailor'.
Nigel McCrery's long-running crime drama delves into the murky world of forensic pathology, following the efforts of officers to solve a series of puzzling crimes.
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
Crime drama following a detective investigating a death on a nuclear submarine - while the vessel remains on active duty. Starring Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie.
Crime thriller based on Mo Hayder's novels about DI Jack Caffery, starring Ukweli Roach and Juliet Stevenson.
