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The BAFTA-winning hit returns, as Cassie (Nicola Walker) and Sunny (Sanjeev Bhaskar) investigate a cold case with alarming links to the police force. A corpse is discovered in a scrap yard, his features frozen in time. Four suspects emerge.

All four have links to the law and attended the same police training course back in 1989. Since then their lives have gone in very different directions. The volatile chief superintendent with a point to prove and a past to forget. A seemingly successful businessman with a criminal past. A Cambridge-educated high-flying cop in a toxic relationship with her mother. And the daughter of a policing family, pushed into a career she cannot stand. All now in their late forties, the police investigation has the potential to shatter their reputations, family relationships and the lives they've built over the last 30 years.

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When human remains are found on the central reservation of a motorway near London, Cassie and Sunny are called to the scene. Dogged work leads the team to Hayley Reid, a 16-year-old girl who went missing on the eve of the millennium.

The police's failure to find out what happened to Hayley wrecked her family's life. Cassie's compassion makes her determined to correct the mistakes made by the original investigation team - whatever the cost to herself. A close-knit group of old school friends hold the key to what happened. Doctor Tim Finch, television presenter James Hollis, failing salesman Pete Carr, and artist Chris Lowe. As the four suspects find themselves under the spotlight, their tight bond is put to the test. They all have secrets in their past - events that have pulled their lives apart. None of them are quite who they first seem to be, but is one of them capable of murder?

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"Manhunt II: The Night Stalker", a four-part drama, is the real-life story of the police pursuit of a notorious serial rapist whose 17-year reign of terror left thousands of elderly people in south east London living in fear.

It is based on the diaries of Colin Sutton (Martin Clunes) and is an important case that he became involved in just before his retirement from the Force. This inquiry has a very different emphasis to the Levi Bellfield case explored in Manhunt; the victims were elderly, and the crimes were unsolved for many years. The drama explores how Colin came late to the inquiry and helped solve it in a matter of weeks, taking an incredibly dangerous serial rapist off the streets.

Oflag IVC, situated in the supposedly 'escape proof' Colditz Castle, was where the Nazis incarcerated their most recalcitrant prisoners-of-war. For these Allied officers, many with an impressive record of attempting escape from POW camps; 'Colditz' was the ultimate challenge...

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Raffles is young, handsome, popular with the ladies and moves in the best social circles in turn-of-the-century England. He's in constant demand as a house guest at some of the grandest country estates and the darling of the cricketing fraternity.

But little do his social friends realise, he's also an accomplished burglar and safe-cracker. Anthony Valentine and Christopher Strauli star in this adaptation of E. W .Hornung's celebrated stories.

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In this series Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman and Tom Pinfold take the farm one stage further, attempting to recreate not just the historical context but also the spiritual context of life in the year 1500, in a society where the Christian faith was at the heart of everything.

They take on the role of the lay-folk who did the bulk of the farming and craftwork within monastic lands, as well as exploring the monastery's primary function - to pray and care for the spiritual welfare of all Christians, both living and dead. Under the reign of the first Tudor King, Henry VII, the country was enjoying a new dawn of peace and prosperity. And as the biggest landowner, other than the King, the monasteries dominated many of the thriving crafts of the era - from wine-making and cloth production to printing and bell casting. They were also places of technological innovation and improvement: farmers on monastic lands pioneered many crucial developments, from the waterwheel to sheep breeding.

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As a newly-qualified vet, James Herriot arrives at Skeldale House in the Yorkshire Dales, looking for his first appointment at Siegfried Farnon's surgery.

Pampered dog, Tricki Woo, gives James something to think about, followed by a tortoise, a bull with heat-stroke and Lord Hunter's favourite horse. James and trainee vet, Tristan relax with the locals down at the Darrowby pub.

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The unlikely detective duo return in this quirky crime drama, packed with corpses, comedy and cracking mysteries. Now that Lu has passed her private investigator exams and Frank's tidied himself up a bit, there's no stopping them.

But murder, kidnap, blackmail and infidelity still abound in the pretty tourist town of Stratford-upon-Avon. An ageing heavy metal star with a pact with the devil. A Shakespeare museum full of deadly secrets. A King Lear story set in a carpet warehouse. Welcome to the birthplace of the Bard, where low-life criminals get caught up in deliciously high drama.

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Following his phenomenally successful series exploring the railways of Britain, Continental Europe and the USA, this captivating new series sees Michael Portillo embarking on a fresh adventure in India as he takes to the tracks of one of the world's largest and most exhilarating rail networks.

Steered by his 1913 copy of Bradshaw's Handbook of Indian, Foreign and Colonial Travel, Michael experiences the thrill of Indian rail travel as he journeys through an extraordinary landscape of majestic mountains, scorching deserts and plains watered by holy rivers! He encounters Maharajas and Mughals, explores ornate palaces and golden temples and learns of the role that the rail network plays in India today. Along the way Michael learns what happened under British imperial rule and charts the movement towards independence for hundreds of millions of Indians - who now live in the largest democracy in the world.

1. Amritsar to Shimla
Travelling the routes used by millions of migrants during Partition, Michael helps to feed thousands at the world's largest free kitchen. He gives his trademark colourful wardrobe an Indian twist, and rides the epic Kalka to Shimla hill railway in the foothills of the Himalayas.
2. Jodhpur to New Delhi
Michael embarks on a stunning journey from the Thar Desert in Rajasthan to the Indian capital, taking in desert landscapes and dazzling historic palaces.
3. Mysuru to Chennai
Michael journeys through the modern south Indian states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, from the former princely state of Mysore to the first stronghold of the East India Company in Chennai, formerly Madras.
4. Lucknow to Kolkata
On an epic journey from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh to Kolkata in West Bengal, Michael charts a course through India's history from the days of The East India Company to the dawn of independence.

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There's only no way out...'Catch-22' follows the adventures and misadventures of a U.S. air squadron in Italy during World War II. Yossarian (Christopher Abbott) is a bombardier, whose frantic obsession every time he goes up on a mission is "to come down alive".

The real enemy for Yossarian and his rag-tag bunch of friends is the bureaucracy of the military, inverting logic at every turn. The pinnacle of this is Catch-22, a military by-law which states that if you fly your missions, you're crazy, and don't have to fly them; all you have to do is ask. But if you ask not to, then you're sane, and so you have to fly them.

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From the brilliant creative mind of Taylor Sheridan (Hell or High Water' and 'Sicario') and starring Academy Award Winner Kevin Costner, 'Yellowstone' revolves around the Dutton family, led by John Dutton (Costner), who controls the largest ranch in the U.S.

that is under constant attack by those it borders: land developers, an Indian reservation and America's first National Park. This is a world where land grabs make developers billions, and politicians are bought and sold by the world's largest oil and lumber corporations. It is the best and worst of America seen through the eyes of a family that represents both. The impressive cast also includes Wes Bentley, Kelly Reilly, Luke Grimes, Cole Hauser, Kelsey Asbille, Danny Huston, Gil Birmingham, Brecken Merrill, Jefferson White, David Annable, and many more.

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A chance accident brings Charlotte Heywood (Rose Williams) to Sanditon, a seaside resort on the cusp of dramatic change.

Spirited and unconventional, Charlotte is initially keen to experience everything the town has to offer but is then shocked by its scheming and ambitious inhabitants and intrigued by the secrets they share. When Charlotte is tactlessly forthright about the family of enthusiastic entrepreneur Tom Parker (Kris Marshall), she immediately clashes with his handsome but wild younger brother Sidney (Theo James). Amidst the rival suitors and unexpected danger, can Charlotte and Sidney see past each other's flaws and find love?

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When the body of a young man is discovered in a derelict building, DCI Cassie Stuart (Nicola Walker) - one of the Met's smartest detectives - is called in to investigate with her partner, DI Sunil Khan (Sanjeev Bhaskar).

Jimmy Sullivan was a homeless boy, murdered in 1976 when the building was a hostel. His diary implicates four suspects; a clergyman, an eminent entrepreneur, a community worker and a wheelchair-bound husband caring for his wife. Each has a secret to hide. As their lies unravel, the people they love most begin to wonder what else they might be capable of. Nothing in this case is black and white. Can you ever really know the people closest to you? What secrets have they buried?

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Alan Bleasdale's GBH is an epic, darkly humorous story of power, corruption and madness played out in the conflict between the enigmatic politician, Michael Murray (Robert Lindsay) and his nemesis, schoolteacher Jim Nelson (Michael Palin).

Nelson accidentally defies a Murray-inspired 24-hour strike and inadvertently steals the limelight when it is picked up by the press. While Murray seeks revenge in what is initially a one-sided fight we slowly discover the secrets in his past that will cause his carefully constructed world to unravel. Then, when the pressure of public life and power games start getting on top of him, a beautiful woman arrives on the scene...

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In this true-life cold war spy thriller, unossuming British businessman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) becomes entangled in one of the greatest international conflicts in history.

Recruited by MI6 and a CIA operative (Rachel Brosnahan), Wynne forms a covert partnership with Soviet officer Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze), and both men risk everything in a danger-fraught race against time to provide the intelligence needed to prevent nuclear confrontation and end the Cuban Missile Crisis.