Streaming on BritBox in February – quick links
Our Welsh Chapel Dream Season 2 – 4 February
Series. This renovation series follows a master potter and his partner as they transform a dilapidated, 160-year-old Victorian chapel into their forever home and a working pottery studio.
Season two presents unprecedented challenges. The pair launch straight into battle with a fast-spreading fungus, tearing it out before it destroys the chapel entirely. With the structure saved, attention turns to detail and design, as they create a richly atmospheric Victorian-style parlour bathroom. The season rounds off with completing the master bedroom, marking the moment the once-derelict chapel finally begins to feel like home.
I Am Ruth – 5 February
Film (2022). When single mother Ruth, played by Kate Winslet (Titanic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), notices her daughter withdrawing from the world and sinking under the weight of social media, she fights to reconnect before their bond is lost.
This critically acclaimed drama – which earned Winslet a BAFTA for Best Leading Actress and took home the BAFTA for Best Single Drama – follows the heartbreaking challenges of teenage addiction. As Freya, played by Kate Winslet’s real-life daughter Mia Threapleton (The Phoenician Scheme, A Little Chaos, Shadows) becomes increasingly obsessed with her phone, hardships emerge. It derails her schooling and communication, sparking tense, emotional confrontations that test the limits of their relationship.
The Pact Season 1 – 12 February
Series. In this six-episode crime thriller, four colleagues at a brewery make a reckless decision after their tyrannical young boss humiliates them at a centenary party. As a drunken prank, they abduct him and decide to leave him abandoned in the woods overnight to fend for himself. The next morning, they return only to discover him dead.
Bound by a fragile pact of silence, the women navigate a tense web of police investigations, blackmail and suspicion. As secrets unravel, shocking revelations surface, and one friend takes the fall, altering their lives forever.
Starring Rakie Ayola (Grace), Laura Fraser (Irvine Welsh’s Crime, Breaking Bad), Julie Hesmondhalgh (Broadchurch, Happy Valley), Eiry Thomas (Keeping Faith), Jason Hughes (Midsomer Murders, Marcella) and Aneurin Barnard (Steeltown Murders, The Catch).
Quant – 13 February
Documentary (2021). One of Britain’s most renowned cultural figures and credited with the invention of the miniskirt, Mary Quant was a vanguard of the stylistic revolution of the ’60s and ’70s.
The renowned designer led the charge away from convention and conservatism through the championing of ground-breaking designs, plus an ingeniously creative partnership with hair stylist Vidal Sassoon. This cinematic and stylistic documentary portrait chronicles her rise, from a childhood on the Welsh countryside to her very first store on London’s legendary King’s Road, through to the development of a global empire.
Shetland Season 10 – 19 February
Series. Detective Ruth Calder, played by Ashley Jensen (Arthur Christmas, The Lobster, Ugly Betty) and Alison McIntosh, played by Alison O’Donnell (Do No Harm, Pet Sematary, Holby City), are faced with discovering the body of retired social worker Eadie Tulloch.
As the murder investigation unfolds, hidden relationships, past wrongs and Eadie’s social work with the troubled Jameson family point to a dark underworld. With betrayals, cover-ups and personal stakes running high, the detectives must navigate deception to uncover the truth.
Queen of the Desert – 27 February
Film (2015). This epic drama chronicles the life of Gertrude Bell – the British traveller, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the 20th century.
Directed by the legendary Werner Herzog, Queen of the Desert stars Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis and Robert Pattinson.
