BBC - Programmes categorised as Drama: Thriller

Jim Nicholson: Four Days to Kill
British Intelligence Officer Jim Nicholson must undertake a dangerous Cold War mission
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Jensen: Black Water by Heidi Amsinck
A new case, set in Copenhagen, for the investigative reporter Jensen.
BBC Radio 4
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Bring Them Down
Two rams go missing from a sheep farmer's flock, reigniting a long-running family feud.
BBC Two
Ghost Trail
A group of Syrian refugees secretly track down their persecutors.
BBC Four
Femme
Jules’s life and career as a drag queen are destroyed by a homophobic attack.
BBC Two
Aontas
Three women rob a rural credit union. A backwards chronology unravels what went wrong.
BBC One Northern Ireland
Brief History of a Family
Enigmatic teenager Yan Shuo ingratiates himself with his new friend's wealthy parents.
BBC Four
Everest
Two groups of mountaineers face a deadly descent from Everest.
BBC Two
The Accident Report Book by Joe Dunthorne
Marian has to write up a bizarre workplace accident - original fiction by Joe Dunthorne.
BBC Radio 4
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The Ridge
How far would you go for family? Mia must unlock the mystery of her sister's death.
BBC Scotland
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The Intruder
An au pair everyone adores. A mother no-one believes. Tense psychological thriller.
BBC Four
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Twisted Metal
A motor-mouthed outsider is offered a chance at a better life.
BBC One
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Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue
Ten passports, nine bodies, one mystery.
BBC One
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Road House
An ex-fighter takes on a job at a road house, only to learn that a gang is terrorising it.
BBC One
The Guest
Power, secrets and toxic friendships collide in a dangerous game of cat and mouse.
BBC One
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Fall
Two friends find themselves trapped 2,000 feet up an abandoned radio tower in the desert.
BBC One
The Jura Affair by William Boyd
A sparkling new literary whodunnit from the acclaimed author William Boyd.
BBC Radio 4
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The One That Got Away
DI Ffion Lloyd returns home to lead a murder investigation.
BBC Four
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Virdee
Love cost him his family. Now a killer threatens his city.
BBC One
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An t-Eilean/The Island
A family's world is shattered in a tense story of lies, loss and long-buried secrets.
BBC ALBA
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Apples Never Fall
What you don’t know can hurt you. A sudden disappearance poisons a picture-perfect family.
BBC One
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Nightsleeper
Real-time thriller about the hacking of a sleeper train travelling from Glasgow to London.
BBC One
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Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang
Rebecca F Kuang’s deliciously dark, witty thriller with a deeply flawed narrator
BBC Radio 4
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The Jetty
A detective from a sleepy town uncovers a web of secrets that threatens to destroy her.
BBC One
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End of Summer
A woman tries to unravel the mystery of her brother's fate 20 years after he vanished.
BBC Four
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Spy/Master
Cold War thriller. In 1980s Romania, the president's right-hand man is a secret Soviet spy
BBC Four
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Prisoner
Four prison guards trigger a battle for survival that reaches far beyond the jail's walls.
BBC Four
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Boat Story
Two strangers. One boat. Nothing to lose. A dark comic thriller.
BBC One
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Scrublands
In the heart of the Australian Outback, a journalist picks the bones of a violent tragedy.
BBC Two
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The Lovecraft Investigations
Julian Simpson's mystery series, based on several works of H.P. Lovecraft.
BBC Radio 4
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Black Snow
Clues to an unsolved murder are unearthed in a remote Australian town.
BBC Two
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Wolf
A family find themselves trapped in their home. Will DI Caffrey reach them in time?
BBC One
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Clean Sweep
A seemingly ordinary housewife's dark past comes back to haunt her.
BBC Four
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Magpie by Elizabeth Day
Elizabeth Day's psychological thriller.
BBC Radio 4
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Surge
An airport worker cracks under pressure and embarks on a frenzy of emotional release.
BBC Two
Crossfire
A group of holidaymakers are caught up in a gun attack on the hotel where they are staying
BBC One
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The Control Room
An emergency call handler's life is turned upside down by a mysterious call.
BBC One
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Doineann
Tomás returns to his island home to find all trace of his wife and their baby gone.
BBC Two Northern Ireland
The Tourist
Fight your demons, face your enemies, find your answers.
BBC One
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Vigil
Military investigator DCI Silva fights to uncover conspiracies of silence.
BBC One
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Takeover
A fast-paced, globe-trotting family saga of power, revenge and karma.
BBC Radio 4
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Limelight
The Limelight podcast - for fiction and drama serials you won't want to miss from Radio 4.
BBC Radio 4
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A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine
The idyllic hot summer of 1976: ends in tragedy for a commune.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
A Simple Favour
A small-town vlogger tries to uncover the truth about her best friend's disappearance.
BBC One
Dublin Murders
In 2006, Dublin detectives Rob Reilly and Cassie Maddox investigate a child’s murder.
BBC One
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The Capture
Don't believe what you see.
BBC One
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MotherFatherSon
A fractured family is pulled together under catastrophic circumstances.
BBC Two
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Informer
Thriller about a man who is coerced into informing by a counterterrorism officer.
BBC One
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The Cry
An unthinkable tragedy changes a woman's life and relationship forever.
BBC One
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Killing Eve
Two women go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.
BBC One
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