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JIMMY McGOVERN’S superb prison drama has just won the Bafta for Best Miniseries, with star Sean Bean picking up the Best Actor gong — and if you missed it when it was originally shown last June, you can still find all three episodes on iPlayer. Bean plays Mark Cobden, a teacher who has accidentally killed a man, and looks terrified as he arrives in prison to start a four-year sentence, thrown into the jungle with tough and troubled men. Bean’s scintillating performance is matched by co-star Stephen Graham as officer Eric

McNally, a decent man who wants to do the best for the men in his charge. But McNally finds himself in an impossible situation when one of the inmates discovers his son is serving a short stretch in another prison — and could be made to come to harm. This is a harrowing and unflinching examination of a broken system that permits criminals to assert their power from within. Also available on iPlayer is the winner of the Bafta for Best Single Drama, the lockdown two-hander Together, which stars James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan.