September 1940_x000D__x000D_With harvest approaching land girl Daphne is busier than ever as she plo..

While her mother is at home giving birth eleven-year-old Isa must look after her younger siblings bu..

A life of poverty in a cramped pit cottage is all that 17-year-old Ruby Dinsdale has known. Even wit..

When Commander Martin Black is shot down over enemy territory and ends up in a POW camp his wife Ann..

Lancashire 1895. When her controlling stepfather suddenly dies it seems that Elinor Pendleton finall..

As the war continues to keep her family far away Peggy Reilly must continue to look after her girls ..

It will take more than Hitler's Luftwaffe to break the spirit of the residents of Lavender Road. If ..

Scotland 1722: on a windswept island an enigmatic poetess foretells tragedy and the birth of an extr..

It's the late 1950s and change is in the air. For the Napier family up at the big house the old ways..

Rosemary Palmer-Farr loves farming and animals and has spent much of her childhood at Bengairney Far..

After the sudden and brutal breakdown of her marriage Jenny finds herself alone for the first time i..

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

It is 1931 and once again Europe is heading towards disaster. Life must go on however and a new gene..

It is 1935 and as Carrie Courtney watches her twin sister Connie marry the man of her dreams Carrie ..

January 1936. Sarah a young executive at a Yorkshire mill returns home to attend her grandfather's f..

Annabella LaGrange was the only child of a wealthy family owners of a glassworks in the North-East o..

The youngest of five siblings Lottie Mortimer has never felt like she belonged. Her mother died shor..

Despite being part of the large O'Donnell family Milly has felt alone in the world since her father ..

1901. Tina Rose is the beloved daughter of a wealthy Jewish family while Edward grew up with an abus..

The Second World War has finally come to a close. Rachel Booker's husband has returned and the famil..

After two years Meg Fairfax has finally started to make a success of herself. Her skills as a baker ..

Sally Travis appeared to have been badly let down by Rhys Martin who had gone away to college when u..

Is love just an illusion? To the outside Clare has everything: a beautiful home a devoted husband an..

Lizzie is an orphan living with her Aunt Annie Uncle Perce and two boy cousins within a stone's thro..

Welcome to the district nurses’ home on Steeple Street where everyone has a secret…Ambitious you..

Left homeless after the Exeter Blitz May must find a job if she's to put a roof over her head and he..

The cinder path which led from the Northumberland farmhouse would always symbolise defeat for Charli..

1938. As England awaits the outbreak of war Juliet Winterton journeys from the Mediterranean to the ..

Liverpool 1941. After German bombs shatter the life Cadi has built for herself in Liverpool she is m..

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

West Yorkshire 1926. After completing her training in Steeple Street Agnes is looking forward to mak..

Blackpool summer 1942._x000D_Meet the Ballroom Girls: Sylvia Pearl and Joy. Three girls dancing thro..

1939. Eve Armstrong is being evacuated to Devon. As the train pulls out of London she takes a last l..

Ever since her mother died Martha Mary had had to take over the running of her home a sprawling mans..

Liverpool 1936. Molly Penelope Hardwick has been abandoned in Haisborough Orphanage. Desperate to di..

Living in Victorian Oxfordshire Poppy Woods has suffered neglect and cruelty from her very first bre..

Sixteen-year-old Charlotte Kirby believes she's all alone in the world when her mother is killed in ..

Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry and it falls to her to become sol..

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

Living on the edge of the beautiful Norfolk Broads with her father the only ripple in Tess Delamere'..

Nineteen-year-old April Wilton has just enlisted in the WRENs in Portsmouth where she works servicin..

1914. Evie Munro is a Scottish fisher girl working the herring season from Wick to Great Yarmouth. F..

After the death of her mother during childbirth Beth is left to care for her father and two older br..

Cornwall 1793. As the French Revolution threatens the stability of England so too is discontent brew..

It is 1938 and the threat of war looms on the streets of London. But when the lights go down in the ..

Cock Shield Farm 1881. After Molly Geary finds herself pregnant with landowner Angus McBain's child ..

Christmas 1945. The war is over but the Nightingale Hospital still bears the scars. Matron Kathleen ..

1919 in Ashford-in-the-Water Derbyshire. Walter Ryan has returned home a broken man and so it falls ..

1935: As the Depression bites beautiful Lindy Gillan dreams of getting away from her boring life in ..

Liverpool 1942. Though they may be posted miles apart Cadi and Jez's love for one another is stronge..

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

Germany 1939: Christa Sommer boards the Kindertransport unsure that she'll ever see her parents agai..

Lancashire 1931. When Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn child he spends a few years travelling..

Viv’s marriage to David was not a conventional one but when he died - in an accident for which she..

After a stray bomb destroyed his childhood home the only thing that has kept Francis Brady going is ..

France 1918. Sophia the rebellious daughter of a distinguished German general is on her way to the t..

It is March 1950 and Honey Brown marries the farmer she adores - August Blake Esq. With her mother-i..

1939: The unexpected death of Sandra Anderson dramatically and ruthlessly changes forever the lives ..

A few days before Christmas Tess Williams rushes into Albert Payne's tobacconist shop with two boys ..

An unexpected inheritance is most people's dream but not so for Paula. She's happy and secure in Wes..

Ever since the death of her beloved husband Peter Caroline's life in Bath has not been the same. Fri..

It is 1907. Liverpool is a bustling and busy city. Sisters Livvie and Amy Goodwin are just 16 and 13..

Nell Whitaker is 15 when war breaks out and her mother sends her to live with her Auntie Kath in a r..

With her husband Nick away fighting Dora struggles to keep the home fires burning but finds herself ..

In 1946 Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane having lost her house in Bootle an..

With Mulberry Lane's favourite pub The Pig & Whistle undergoing renovation proprietors Peggy and Abl..

Alice moves to the village of Churchwood with her retired father just as WWII breaks out. She is des..

Cornwall: 1793. Rose Pengelly's father has been ruined - he has lost his boat yard and his fortune p..

When young British agent John Kirby is sent to Russia in 1911 he does not expect to fall in love. T..

1501 Plymouth Devon. Luke Kendal the long awaited son of Elizabeth and John grows up under the lovin..

London 1912. Twins Lester and Lillia Holdsworth are destined for the stage. Lester is a brilliant pi..

It is 1918; the Kaiser’s empire is about to fall and Captain Harry Phillips a prisoner of war in a..

When her father dies Abigail Newman is forced to leave her mother and the vicarage she was raised in..

Cambridgeshire - 1941_x000D_As the war rages on in Europe it brings untold heartache to the Talbot f..

Devon 1943. In the village of Burracombe 'Dig for Victory' is more than just a wartime slogan. While..

Orphaned Eliza Dunlop has been working as a companion to a rich but cantankerous old lady Miss Grego..

Following a scandalous affair wayward Emma Devaney is sent in disgrace from her home in Ireland to R..

1950. After her marriage went badly wrong Dolly Taylor returned to Rotherhithe from America. She is ..

Cliffehaven 1944. Peggy Reilly is enjoying a rare moment alone in the garden of her Beach View Board..

Manchester 1942. When Cordelia's daughter Emily falls for a young chap who doesn't meet the approval..

Hull 1856. James Ripley and his wife Moira have always looked out for the poor of Hull. When during ..

Charlotte Booth loves her father and the home they share which is set high up in the limestone escar..

The day that Hilary and David have been waiting for has finally arrived and as the church bells ring..

Meg just wants her family to be together at Christmas. But her mother's illness gets worse every day..

As World War One begins no family including the Neylers will be left untouched and by the time the w..

Judith is suddenly all alone in the world. Her husband Jack has left her - why she doesn't really kn..

In the backstreets of Liverpool Eileen Watson lives with her mother Nellie daughter Mel and her thre..