Live performance of Shakespeare's tragedy at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Wealthy, self-assured Hamlet (Paapa Essiedu)'s world is turned upside down when news reaches him that his father, the King of Denmark, has died whilst he is studying abroad in Germany. Hamlet returns home to find everything in chaos. It's not long before Hamlet's mother Gertrude (Tanya Moodie) has announced her intention to his uncle Claudius (Clarence Smith), elevating him to the throne. When the ghost of Hamlet's father appears to him and claims Claudius was responsible for his death, Hamlet is spurred to seek revenge.

BBC television adaptation of the post-Cold War thriller by Robert Harris. Washed-up historian Fluke Kelso (Daniel Craig), a specialist in Soviet studies, is attending a conference in Russia when he is approached by a former NKVD officer who offers him information that could uncover a vast conspiracy. Kelso takes the bait and soon finds himself persued by the Russian authorities on a dangerous journey to the remote Russian port of Archangel, where he finds evidence of Stalin's final, unimaginable legacy.