It is 1964 and fun-loving Rita has her dream job working as a nanny for a huge popstar and his famil..

Alice and Isaac have been close friends since childhood but their paths diverge when they discover t..

1916 Scotland. Five years after leading a strike at the sewing factory newly pregnant Ellen is rushe..

The eldest of three children Kate helps her mother run the Devlin plait-school. They supply the mate..

London 1930s. Years after she first fled to South Shields Cathy is known by everyone as the landlady..

1939. The threat of war is looming over Blackpool but Martha and Trisha are determined not to let it..

The year is 1944 and in South Wales 17-year-old pit miner's daughter Rosa Edwards has just secured a..

Sep McGilby always said that Emily Kennedy had a happy face. And at 16 Emily had a lot to be glad ab..

York 1852. When Caroline Lawson becomes a young widow her grief is deepened by the loss of her farm...

Poachers and dealmakers the Griffiths family have always managed to scrape by on the edge of the law..

Wesley Curnow a young Cornish miner arrives in the United States to seek an uncle who is working on ..

Gilly Jenkins is the third generation to bake for her family firm. Also on Bread Street in the same ..

In the brooding north country hills a man and a woman fought for the passion they felt for each othe..

John Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife a son friends but he was isolated from all the people ..

1952. With smog blanketing London little Grace is in trouble. Her grandmother is dangerously ill but..

Slung out from her home and onto the slum streets of Manchester at the tender age of twelve Perdita ..

1944 the darkest days of the war. Trixie and Vi are back in Gosport and doing their bit to help Brit..

Janet and Hywel Griffiths dream of seeing their son Frank happily married but Mair the daughter of t..

When Maisie Vasey leaves her husband and brings her daughter to live on Pendragon Island she causes ..

Leaving Liverpool behind Libby Gilbert embarks on a transformative journey to London with her newfou..

Georgina Corrigan is dead! It must be true. It has been printed in the newspapers. How does one prov..

When the Gallachers received an invitation from the Duke of Moorshire to attend an evening at Lea Ha..

In 1860’s Yorkshire a woman’s fortune belongs to her husband - regardless of a so-called-gentlem..

When orphaned Jake Harding is sent away from his adoptive home aged just seven he does not understan..

When Polly Anna’s mother died when she was just three years old it seemed the workhouse was the on..

Gosport 1943. Eadie Joy and Maureen are all doing their bit to help Britain win the war. Their work ..

Tammy and her mother Grace are desperate to escape Tammy's violent bully of a father. But when an un..

Seven years ago Charlotte Russell's father walked out on her family. Ever since the task of caring f..

London 1923. Cyril Black is finally out of prison. Rather than going home to his wife and son he vis..

1950. Seventeen-year-old Josephine Cliffe and her younger sister Eliza have the perfect lives wantin..

In the Nightingale Hospital Matron Helen finds herself playing surrogate mother to her newly disco..

Kenna arrives in Sydney to surprise her best friend shocked to hear she's going to marry a guy she's..

1942. Determined to do her bit for the war effort Yorkshire lass Evie Sinclair leaves her island hom..

1945 Sunderland. Ida Boulter makes the heart-wrenching decision to leave her five children behind as..

At the end of Hawthorn Close there is a charming park which boasts two magnificent magnolia trees an..

Proud and canny ignorant and intensely ambitious Hannah Massey is a born ruler. Her kingdom may only..

His full name is Joseph Rooney Smith and he works for the corporation of one of the Tyneside towns a..

Her name was Hannah Boyle but to the people of the village she would always be 'The Girl' - Matthew ..

When Daisy’s family lose their croft on the Connemara coast her Aunt Jane housekeeper to Dr and Mr..

Motherhood is every woman's right and the natural outcome of a happy marriage. But what then when a ..

It’s 1957 and three young women are beginning their nursing training at the Florence Nightingale H..

March 1941. After Flo Butterworth loses everything in Manchester's Christmas Blitz she decides to le..

In the dead of night a young woman is found on the doorstep of the House of Help for Friendless Girl..

Rowntree's Factory York 1935. The aroma of chocolate was as familiar to Molly Freeman as the nose on..

When the fiercest storm in living memory pounds the shores of 19th century Cornwall wrecking ships a..

The Roman House is a sweeping saga which covers the lives of a family from 1898 until the 1970s. The..

Harry Blenheim wasn't what you might call a good-looking fellow but his face was full of character w..

Someone had once told Emma Molinero the daughter of an itinerant carnival performer that she was mad..

When Charity Browne arrives at The Fitzroy Hotel on her way to a country house party she knows there..

To outsiders Dr Paul Higgins' life appeared to be happy and contented. Everyone had a good word for ..

London 1910. Lily is ten years old when she realises her grandmother a washerwoman is seriously ill...

Will love or duty be her downfall? Wivenhoe 1940. As war tightens its grip the residents of Harbour ..

There were plenty around Fellburn who said Maggie Rowan was as plain as a pikestaff a woman consumed..

It's late summer 1940 and Isla Donahue's idyllic lifestyle comes to an abrupt end when her father se..

In Battenbun Northumberland there live four Puddleton men - Grandpop Old Popo Pop and Peter. Three o..