Oliver Dimsdale

Based on Anthony Trollope's 19th-century novel, this BBC period drama centers on the troubled marriage of Louis (Oliver Dimsdale) and Emily (Laura Fraser) Trevelyan. Madly in love as newlyweds, miscommunication and mistrust cause their relationship to deteriorate. When the infamous flirt Col. Osborne (Bill Nighy) pays one too many a visit to Emily, emotionally fragile Louis overreacts in a fit of jealousy, driving away his strong-willed wife. (netflix)

Adam is a rich industrialist, who aspires to a more cultured world. Spurred on by playful jibes that he is little more than a city suit living the capitalist's dream, this frustrated amateur opera singer decides to throw an opera in his lavish country retreat. Once his friends see him belting out the notes, he feels sure it will spell the end to their shallow taunts...

Contemporary opinions of the 16th-century soothsayer's predictions and the ways in which his purportedly prophetic writings continue to cause controversy

A Chronicled look at the fall of the Romanov dynasty in Russia. (imdb)

A historical drama that tells the story of the development of penicillin in the 1930's/40's, by a group of scientists in Oxford at The Dunn School of Pathology. (imdb)

A Cambridgeshire clergyman finds himself investigating a series of mysterious wrongdoings in his small village of Grantchester (imdb)