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The Ruby in the Smoke

  • Category: Period Drama

Billie Piper stars in a mesmerising fantasy adventure from the mind of Philip Pullman. Sally Lockhart must uncover family secrets to find the Ruby of Agrapur.

The Ruby in the Smoke is not currently available on demand.

  • Emma

    Description: Sandy Welch's dramatisation of Jane Austen's novel, stars Romola Garai in the title role.; Category: Period Drama; 4 episodes available.

  • Little Dorrit

    Description: Adaptation of Charles Dickens' family drama.; Category: Period Drama; 8 episodes available.

  • Cranford

    Description: Funny and touching drama about the lives of the people of Cranford.; Category: Period Drama; 5 episodes available.

  • Cranford: Return To Cranford

    Description: Funny and touching drama about the lives of the people of Cranford.; Category: Period Drama; 2 episodes available.

  • Oliver Twist

    Description: Timothy Spall and Tom Hardy star in Charles Dickens's tale of a young orphan boy.; Category: Period Drama; 2 episodes available.

  • Tess of the D'Urbervilles

    Description: Four-part drama series based on the novel by Thomas Hardy, written by David Nicholls; Category: Period Drama; 4 episodes available.

  • Sense and Sensibility

    Description: Adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel about the Dashwood family.; Category: Period Drama; 3 episodes available.

  • North and South

    Description: Adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel set across the social divide in the Victorian age.; Category: Period Drama; 4 episodes available.

  • Lark Rise to Candleford

    Description: Adaptation of Flora Thompson's memoir of her Oxfordshire childhood.; Category: Period Drama; 40 episodes available.

  • The Bletchley Circle

    Description: Drama about four fictional ex-Bletchley Park operatives.; Category: Crime Drama; 7 episodes available.

  • Lucan

    Description: Drama based on the true story of infamous aristocrat John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan.; Category: Period Drama; 2 episodes available.

  • Cambridge Spies

    Description: Drama following four Cambridge University students who were recruited by the Soviet Union.; Category: Period Drama; 4 episodes available.