After the Second World War Ellen and her daughter Netta make the journey from Germany back to Scotla..

Liverpool 1935. Monica Savage is delighted when the Copperfields move in next door and she quickly b..

Roddy Greenbank was brought by his father to the remote Northumberland community of Langley in the a..

Wales 1908. Still grieving the tragic death of her father and deserted by her stepmother Nellie Rhia..

Life on the Fifteen Streets was a continual struggle for survival. John O'Brien grew up in abject po..

Pendragon Island is the perfect place for holidays with a stretch of clean golden sand and a gloriou..

Still grieving the death of her watchman husband in a terrorist attack during the Outrages factory w..

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

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

Rory Connor was a gambling man and he had a gambler's luck. From the day he was born his mother had ..

Seventeen-year-old Ruth Hardy works long hours at Grange Paper Works with her younger sister Bea. Wh..

London 1913. The shop girls of Harpers Emporium on Oxford Street are happy in their work and their l..

Cockney born Nelly Luke is an essential part of the community. Yet not even Nelly with her shrewd ey..

Laura Cannock is on the run suspected of killing her bullying husband and his family are out for rev..

Polly living in grinding poverty loses her mother in childbirth and finds herself alone on the stree..