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Season 1

  • S01E01 Pale Sister

    • March 30, 2021
    • BBC Four

    A powerful retelling of the classic tale of Antigone.

  • S01E02 Sadie

    • March 31, 2021
    • BBC Four

    A sharp-tongued Belfast cleaner relives painful and heartbreaking episodes in a confrontation with her past.

  • S01E03 Half Breed

    • April 6, 2021
    • BBC Four

    A young girl from a small town has a burning desire to escape her petty atmosphere and move to the city to become an actress.

  • S01E04 Sitting

    • April 7, 2021
    • BBC Four

    Three characters sit for a silent painter and reveal their personal truths in a play about love, loss and the importance of human connection.

  • S01E05 Harm

    • April 13, 2021
    • BBC Four

    When a lone realtor sells a house to Alice, a charismatic social media influencer, the two strike up an unlikely friendship. But as her obsession with her with Alice's seemingly perfect world intensifies, the lines between the online world and reality become dangerously blurred.

  • S01E06 Buttercup

    • April 14, 2021
    • BBC Four

    Fortune weaving words, poems and memories, shares her story with her mother. From her life of hers as a vulnerable child in a bedroom in Kinshasa to a fearless young woman partying and performing in Liverpool. She is only now ready to revisit a past that she has locked away, to recognize the power behind her mother's warnings and to accept the truth that she was never to blame for what happened to her.

  • S01E07 Adam

    • April 20, 2021
    • BBC Four

    The true story of a trans man, Adam Kashmiry, and his remarkable struggle across genders and borders.

  • S01E08 Orpheus in the Record Shop

    • April 21, 2021
    • BBC Four

    Orpheus is alone, playing tunes in his record store, when a visit from an enigmatic stranger puts music, myth, and his own fragile reality in a twist. He ventures into the past to confront some painful truths in hopes of reconciling himself to his future.

  • S01E09 The Winter's Tale

    • April 25, 2021
    • BBC Four

    King Leontes tears his family apart with his jealousy, but pain opens his heart. Will he find the boy he abandoned before it's too late?

  • S01E10 J'Ouvert

    • April 26, 2021
    • BBC Four

    2017. Carnival arrived. The streets of Notting Hill are steeped in history and amid endless soca, sequins and feathers, Jade and Nadine fight for space in a world that should be theirs. A timely echo of Caribbean resistance throughout the centuries, a joyous and courageous tale of two best friends who fight to preserve tradition in a society where women's bodies are frequently threatened.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Rough Girls

    • March 6, 2022

    A century after the formation of the first Northern Irish women's football team, 'Derry Girls' Tara Lynne O'Neill's debut play, enacted by an all-female cast, chronicles the courage and determination of the women who became known as the suffragettes of soccer. In Belfast in September 1917, in the midst of World War I and one year after the Easter Rising, a group of women representing the teams Celtic and Distillery got together to play football in front of 16,000 fans at Grosvenor Park.