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BBC Drama

Season 2019 2019
TV-G

  • 2019-04-15T20:00:00Z on BBC Four
  • 1h 30m
  • 13h 30m (9 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Drama
One off and short run BBC Dramas

9 episodes

Season Premiere

2019-04-15T20:00:00Z

2019x01 Counsel

Season Premiere

2019x01 Counsel

  • 2019-04-15T20:00:00Z1h 30m

A barrister has to balance representing a new young client with supporting her high-profile husband amid a job promotion and an impending scandal. A legal drama, starring Valene Kane, Declan Conlon, Adam Gillian, Joanne Crawford, Chris Robinson, Ruby Campbell, Niall Cusack, Patrick Fitzsymons and Mark Asante.

2019x02 The Importance of Being Oscar

  • 2019-04-20T20:00:00Z1h 30m

A star-studded documentary drama, providing an account of Oscar Wilde's glittering career before his trial for homosexual crimes and his tragic fall from grace. Wilde enthusiasts and experts such Stephen Fry and Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland provide revelatory accounts of how the writer's own life informed his work, intercut with adaptations of his comedies and books performed by a cast including Freddie Fox, Claire Skinner, Anna Chancellor and James Fleet.

2019-04-22T20:00:00Z

2019x03 Ups and Downs

2019x03 Ups and Downs

  • 2019-04-22T20:00:00Z1h 30m

Conal is a 22 year old with Down's Syndrome. Full of heavy metal attitude, he wants to be a rock star.
Mum, Fionnuala lost her husband five years ago and places a lot of responsibility on the shoulders of her daughter Gemma, 18. She is mum number two. Conal wants to be treated as an adult and Gemma wants her own life, but Fionnuala is too stressed to take this on board. While Gemma looks forward to university in Scotland, Conal can only see his life getting worse. But he has a plan. He hoodwinks Gemma into taking a trip to Antrim, agreed by their mum, for a job. After missing the train, they get onto a tour bus, then things get a bit out of hand. Mum is mad with Gemma, blaming her during a phone call, for taking Conal to Antrim. Conal then reveals his plan - he has bought tickets for an Ash gig in Belfast that night.
Meanwhile, Fionnuala enlists the help of family friend Fergus to chase them down. What happens next involves vodka, crisps, a tractor crash, losing the tickets, a sports car, separating and getting lost in Belfast, selling everything, but still having no way of getting to the gig together.
Meanwhile Fionnuala is learning to chill. So how will it end? Will they all get together somewhere? And most importantly, will they get to the gig?

2019-07-10T20:00:00Z

2019x04 The Left Behind

2019x04 The Left Behind

  • 2019-07-10T20:00:00Z1h 30m

Support for the far right is growing in Britain’s post-industrial towns and cities.

This factual drama from the BAFTA-winning team behind Killed By My Debt and the Murdered by… films tells the story of a young man with no secure job, housing or future as he is drawn into a devastating hate crime.

A steel-tipped state of the nation drama based on deep research into the realities of life in ‘forgotten Britain.’

2019-09-15T20:00:00Z

2019x05 Cyprus Avenue

2019x05 Cyprus Avenue

  • 2019-09-15T20:00:00Z1h 30m

David Ireland’s Cyprus Avenue is a multi-award-winning play and production starring Stephen Rea and directed by Vicky Featherstone. Originally co-produced at the Royal Court Theatre and Abbey Theatre, the critically acclaimed production went on tour to Belfast and New York. This adaptation mixes live capture of the performance from the stage of the Royal Court with location shooting in Belfast.

Eric Miller is a Belfast loyalist. He experiences a psychotic episode and mistakes his five-week-old granddaughter for Gerry Adams. Generations of sectarian trauma convince him that his cultural heritage is under siege. He must act. A hard-hitting but in parts hilarious black comedy, Cyprus Avenue tells the story of a man struggling with the past and terrified of the future. It was awarded Best New Play at the Irish Times Theatre Awards and the James Tait Black Prize for Drama in 2017. Stephen Rea won Best Actor for his portrayal of Eric at the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2017.

This recording, commissioned by The Space, creates a completely original adaptation.

2019-12-08T21:00:00Z

2019x06 Elizabeth is Missing

2019x06 Elizabeth is Missing

  • 2019-12-08T21:00:00Z1h 30m

When 80-year-old Maud's best friend Elizabeth fails to turn up for a shopping trip, she is certain that something terrible has happened. Despite living with dementia, she decides to turn detective and sets about trying to solve the mystery, but with her condition it's not always easy to hold on to the clues.

2019-12-16T21:00:00Z

2019x07 Responsible Child

2019x07 Responsible Child

  • 2019-12-16T21:00:00Z1h 30m

Factual drama following the story of Ray, a young boy on the cusp of adolescence who finds himself standing trial for murder.

2019-12-24T21:00:00Z

2019x08 Martin's Close

2019x08 Martin's Close

  • 2019-12-24T21:00:00Z1h 30m
  1. John Martin is on trial for his life. Facing him, the infamous 'hanging judge' George Jeffreys. However, this is not a cut-and-dried murder case.

2019x09 Mimi and the Mountain Dragon

  • 2019-12-26T21:00:00Z1h 30m

Animated adaptation of the children's book by Michael Morpurgo. A shy little girl named Mimi finds a baby dragon and undertakes a perilous journey to return it to its mother.

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