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Best BBC shows: All the best dramas on BBC iPlayer
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An inspirational teacher is courted by a student, triggering a complex criminal case. A sinister real-life story starring Timothy Spall and Anne Reid.
A disenchanted journalist is ordered to write a follow-up piece a year after a mass shooting of five parishioners by a priest. Drama, starring Luke Arnold
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Comic crime drama about a detective who teams up with the retired actor who played her cop show hero to crack a case. Starring Timothy Spall and Gwyneth Keyworth
Historical drama based on Gill Hornby's novel, starring Keeley Hawes as Jane Austen's sister, who attempts to conceal the author's secrets years after her death. Also starring Alfred Enoch
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.
When a murder occurs in an ex-mining town, DCS Ian St Clair is called to investigate. Drama starring David Morrissey.
Jonathan Harden, Sian Brooke and Katherine Devlin star in a procedural drama following three new recruits to Belfast's police force.
A couple are driven apart over the decision whether to stop care for their daughter's deteriorating health in a poignant drama starring Sharon Horgan and Michael Sheen.
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'.
A shocking drama inspired by the Windrush scandal. After 50 years in the UK, Anthony Bryan is wrongfully detained by the Home Office and threatened with deportation.
Andrew Davies' adaptation of Vikram Seth's novel following the story of a university student coming of age in India in 1951. Starring Tanya Maniktala.
Drama looking at the adoption process from a queer perspective, as Gabriel (Sion Daniel Young) and Andy (Fra Fee) embark on a moving journey of self-discovery involving painful childhood trauma.
Crime thriller based on Mo Hayder's novels about DI Jack Caffery, starring Ukweli Roach and Juliet Stevenson.
Years on from their teen romance in 80s Sheffield, music brings them back together - was this the love they were meant to have? Romance and heartbreak with a banging soundtrack. Teresa Palmer and Jim Sturgess star.
Series spin-off from the 2021 film, starring Stephen Graham, picking up six months later with Carly (Vinette Robinson) now running her own kitchen.
The story of how David Stirling, an officer injured in the Second World War, planned to radicalise traditional commando units and founded the SAS.
Death in Paradise spin-off. Humphrey Goodman and fiancée Martha Lloyd swap Saint Marie for Devon, where she runs a restaurant, and he works for the local police.
Drama series based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth, offering an insight into the world of midwifery and family life in 1950s east London. Jenny Agutter is among the regular cast members.
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 about a fictional Dublin crime family embroiled in gangland war, starring Charlie Cox, Aidan Gillen, Clare Dunne and Emmett J Scanlan.
Drama telling the story of the 1988 terrorist attack, in which a transatlantic flight was destroyed by a bomb while flying over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing everyone on board as well as several residents of the town
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.
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.
