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Best BBC shows: All the best dramas on BBC iPlayer
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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.
The story of how David Stirling, an officer injured in the Second World War, planned to radicalise traditional commando units and founded the SAS.
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
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.
Docudrama examining the true story of George and Kathy Lutz, whose move into a dream home in 1975 turned into a nightmare. Those closest to the terror share their stories
Drama following five graduates who join the world's most pre-eminent financial institution in the aftermath of the 2008 collapse. Starring Harry Lawtey
Five talented black teenagers receive scholarships to a prestigious boarding school only to discover they're only there to improve the school's image after a problematic scandal. Comedy series starring Derek Riddell and Harry Gilby
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After their flight from Finland is delayed, strangers Josh and Fola end up getting drunk and sleeping together, unbeknownst to their partners back home. When Josh gets home the next day, he is shocked to discover that Fola is his new neighbour.
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 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.
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.
Murder-mystery following detectives confronted by a series of puzzling crimes, originally adapted from the book Red Bones by crime writer Ann Cleeves.
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.
