Norfolk 1944. Phylly is a Land Girl on Catchetts Farm. She and her friend Gracie are doing their bit..

Sunderland 1943. Helen would love to find the courage to tell the dashing Dr Parker of her true feel..

December 1930. With the Depression biting deeper it looks like many children in the East End will wa..

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

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

Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia. She's not intending to stay long but after track..

Ireland 1851. After enduring years of the devastating potato famine Ellen Kittrick is a survivor. To..

In Western Australia Sarah chuckles as she describes her final will and testament - which will throw..

August 1940. The war is raging in Europe but on the home front conflict still seems far away. Dot li..

Feisty Irish gypsy girl Tamara Redmond is just sixteen when she overhears her parents planning her w..

Following a terrible storm seven-year-old Lottie is rescued from a shipwreck by local Cornishman Arn..

Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death Stella comes into some money unexpecte..

1935. At 36 Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin Thomas acting as his unpaid servant. But..

When Mara Gregory receives a letter from the father whom she believed to have died when she was a ch..

East Kent 1876. With doting parents and siblings she adores 16-year-old Rose Cheevers leads a conten..