Arctic adventure!

A ship’s doctor faces a fight for survival in a seafaring saga set in the 1850s...

- CAREN CLARK, HANNAH DAVIES, SEAN MARLAND

THE NORTH WATER

Friday, 9.30pm BBC2 Drama All five episodes will be available on BBC iPlayer after the first episode airs

Prepare for a perilous voyage into the icy waters of the Arctic in an epic new period drama about a whaling expedition that descends into rivalry, murder and a fight for survival.

The first episode opens in the 1850s with Irishman Patrick Sumner, who was a surgeon in the British Army, joining the crew of Captain Brownlee (Stephen Graham, Time) on