SCREEN TIME
Our TV critic Pete McDonald guides you through the best on the box this month
All In A Lather
Classic Soaps, Britbox
We’re a nation of soap lovers and so the reduced visits to the Rovers, Alber t Square and the Woolpack these last few months due to the pandemic have been a bit like cold turkey. There is help at hand though if you’re missing your full soapy fix. The streaming ser vice, Britbox, is showing classic old episodes
Dark Days
so you can relive those iconic soap moments again and again – from Emmerdale’s tragic plane crash to the unravelling of Richard “Norman Bates with a briefcase” Hillman on Corrie to Dir ty Den’s Christmas divorce shocker for Angie in EastEnders. Britbox costs £5.99 monthly but tr y it out for free for 30 days now by visiting
The Salisbury Poisonings, BBC One This three-part drama focusing on the 2018 novichok attack on a Russian spy and his daughter in Salisbury was carried off with typical class and restraint by the BBC. The thing I admired most was the way it captured the creeping horror of the poisonings in such casual, domestic settings as a town centre, an office, a family home. A chilling insight into the malevolent power of global superstates and a celebration of human bravery and decency, it shone a light on a dark corner of this country’s recent past.