What’s streaming this week
The Way BBC iPlayer
Strikes in Port Talbot spark a revolution – and a family of fugitives go on the run. Facing impossible choices, what would you do?
With the town under martial law, Dee and Geoff try to find Owen who, denied medication, is hallucinating in an isolation camp. Thea discovers that a new security unit at the police station is trawling footage of the protest, and she notices that Owen is being singled out.
Bold drama from Michael Sheen and Adam Curtis.
Decline and Fall Netflix UK
Expelled from Oxford University due to a prank, Paul Pennyfeather is an inoffensive divinity student (Jack Whitehall) who takes a teaching job that launches him into a series of eccentric misadventures. With a great casct including Eva Longoria, David Suchet, Douglas Hodge, Stephen Graham, Oscar
Kennedy, Matthew Beard, Vincent Franklin, Gemma Whelan, Katy Wix. Adapted from the novel by Evelyn Waugh.
The Football Fraudster ITVHub
New true crime documentary. Footballer, rapper, con artist… Medi Abalimba’s sophisticated web of lies swindled multiple victims, breaking hearts and destroying lives.
Einstein and the Bomb Netflix
What happened after Einstein fled Nazi Germany? Using archival footage and his own words, this docudrama dives into the mind of a tortured genius.
Storyville: Navalny BBC iPlayer
In August 2020, a plane travelling from Siberia to Moscow made an emergency landing. Alexei Navalny was deathly ill. He was taken to a local Siberian hospital and eventually evacuated to Berlin. Doctors there confirmed that he had been poisoned with novichok, a nerve agent implicated in attacks on other opponents of the Russian government. President Vladimir Putin immediately cast doubt on the findings and denied any involvement. This Oscar-winning documentary packs an extra punch in the wake of Navalny’s death in prison.
ITVHub
Vera is brought to market when a lovable rogue trader is found dead in a lane following a suspected hit-and-run, and a familiar face is back on the scene.
Brenda Blethyn stars as Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanshope.