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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.

  • Sharpe's Peril

    Description: Sharpe and Sgt Major Harper accompany a crew of soldiers through India.; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Sharpe's Challenge

    Description: Sharpe arrives in India and learns that a British general's daughter has been kidnapped.; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode 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.

  • The Great Train Robbery

    Description: Drama series based on the most infamous heist in British history.; Category: Period Drama; 4 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.

  • Christopher and His Kind

    Description: Period drama based on real events. Author Christopher Isherwood sets out to find himself.; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • The Hour

    Description: Cold War drama series following two reporters involved in a dangerous conspiracy.; Category: Period Drama; 12 episodes available.

  • Copper

    Description: Crime drama set in New York during the 1860s, with Tom Weston-Jones.; Category: Crime Drama; 23 episodes available.