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..

Norfolk 1940. As war rages on the residents of Great Plumstead are doing all they can to help the wa..

A mysterious key left by her murdered sister takes Air Transport Auxiliary pilot Betty Palmer on a j..

Summer 1953. The sun is shining on Little Green Street the bunting is being brought out and Britain ..

1916. Poppy is being transferred to an enormous new munitions complex in Gretna on the Scottish bord..

Evie spent her early years left outside on the step. With a drunk for a father and a neglectful moth..

In the aftermath of the General Strike times are tough for coal miners and their families. When Call..

A small Welsh town hosts a lively and varied community - and none more so than Nelly Luke the cheerf..

Almost a decade after being rescued from a shipwreck by a local Cornish family sixteen-year-old Lott..