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Categories: Drama: Political

  1. The Lives of Others

    A Stasi agent spying on a dramatist and his lover becomes fascinated by their lives.

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  2. On Expenses

    Drama about journalist Heather Brooke's fight for the disclosure of MPs' expenses.

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  3. The Walker

    A male escort in Washington DC becomes unwittingly embroiled in a murder plot.

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  4. Blame It on Fidel

    A girl blames it on Castro when her parents become radical communists in 1970s France.

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  5. The Trials of Tommy

    The drama of the Sheridan trial brought to life, with analysis from the press box.

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  6. City Hall

    A small boy is caught in the crossfire of a gunfight. Deputy mayor Calhoun investigates.

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  7. Frost/Nixon

    The story behind one of the most unforgettable moments in TV history.

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  8. Milk

    The story of Harvey Milk, first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the US.

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  9. Il Divo

    Biographical Italian drama telling the story of former prime minister Giulio Andreotti.

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  10. The Ides of March

    A staffer (Ryan Gosling) working for a presidential candidate learns a harsh lesson.

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  11. The Wizard, the Goat and the Man Who Won the War

    Richard Elfyn stars in DJ Britton's acclaimed fictional solo show about David Lloyd George

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  12. Spirit of the People

    The story of Abraham Lincoln, from his youth as a woodsman to his election as president.

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  13. Legacy

    Cold War drama. A trainee spy is asked to 'turn' a Russian diplomat he knew at university.

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  14. Turks & Caicos

    An MI5 agent's life is endangered after he becomes embroiled in a political scandal.

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  15. Salting the Battlefield

    Johnny Worricker is on the run across Europe with Margot Tyrell, with the net closing in.

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  16. Dividing the Union

    A play by James Graham. Scotland has voted for independence, but how to divide the union?

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  17. Falling Heads

    How MP Noel Pemberton Billing's libel battle rocked Lloyd George's government in 1917.

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  18. Balance of Power

    A new independent MP has the crucial vote in a hung parliament. Disrespectful comedy.

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  19. Richard Marsh - The Beetle

    An upstanding Parliamentary member's past indiscretion dooms his future life.

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  20. The Gathering Storm

    A look at Winston Churchill's life and struggles in the years leading up to World War II.

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  21. King Charles III

    The new King Charles refuses to sign a bill into law, plunging the country into chaos.

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  22. Theresa v Boris: How May Became PM

    Drama documentary telling the story of the Conservative Party's 2016 leadership campaign.

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  23. Leila Keys - The Indian Lauren Bacall

    Nina recalls her friend Laurie and their cruel parting after the division of their country

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  24. Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

    The story of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin and the 245 days that brought them to supreme power

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  25. Nandita Ghose - One Thousand Days, One Thousand Nights

    Two sisters are reunited and communicate through old Persian fables.

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  26. Nick Warburton: Oliver Park - The Easter Riots

    What's the truth behind the West Trent tragedy?

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  27. Romper Stomper

    High stakes six-episode drama that follows a new generation of far right activists.

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  28. A Very English Scandal

    Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has a secret he is desperate to hide.

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  29. Things Can Only Get Worse

    Adaptation of John O'Farrell's best-selling book about the New Labour project.

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  30. Bodyguard

    A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician.

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  31. The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre

    Ben Macintyre's book tells the story of a KGB double agent at the height of the Cold War.

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  32. The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre (Omnibus)

    British MI6 recruits a disaffected KGB agent at the height of the Cold War.

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  33. The Republicans

    Entertaining new dramas following the political swings of the Republican Party.

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  34. Tony Ramsay - Tango Sensations

    A death during Argentina's Dirty War affects the romantic notions of an expat years later.

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  35. Forest 404

    Eco-thriller starring Pearl Mackie, with theme music by Bonobo.

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  36. The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

    Lampedusa's epic tale of the decline and fall of a family of Sicilian aristocrats.

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  37. Mueller: Trump Tower Moscow

    Contemporary drama on the investigation into Donald Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia

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  38. MotherFatherSon

    A fractured family is pulled together under catastrophic circumstances.

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  39. Red Moon

    A former MI5 agent stumbles across a deadly conspiracy in this Cold War thriller.

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  40. Black Water: An American Story

    A young writer meets a famous US Senator at a party and something goes terribly wrong.

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  41. Isaac Newton: Nemesis

    By David Ashton. A counterfeiting gang steal Isaac Newton's supply of silver.

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  42. The National

    Politics and theatre do battle in the fight to establish a successful National Theatre

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  43. The Trial of Christine Keeler

    The story of the woman at the centre of one of the 20th century’s biggest scandals.

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  44. The Drop by Mick Herron (Omnibus)

    After witnessing a clandestine encounter, an old spy sets life changing events in motion.

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  45. The Leopard (Omnibus)

    Don Fabrizio Corbera, the Prince of Salina, and his family assemble for dinner.

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  46. Penny Gold - Three Days That Shook the World

    1991, the USSR: Mikhail Gorbachev is imprisoned in a Black Sea dacha during a coup.

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  47. Mrs. America

    The political movement in the 1970s on the Equal Amendment Right for women in the US.

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  48. Roadkill

    An embattled Tory politician tries to leave his past behind.

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  49. All the President's Men

    Two Washington Post reporters uncover abuses of power by President Nixon.

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  50. Red Joan

    Octogenarian Joan Stanley is arrested and accused of having worked as a Soviet spy.

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