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

Lancashire 1932. Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter Cathie scrimpi..

Lancashire 1934. When Tam Crawford is unexpectedly bequeathed some money he can finally realise his ..

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

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

Thomas Pitt arrives at a devastating bombing in Lancaster Gate to find two policemen dead and three ..

1910. Sir Thomas Pitt's son Daniel is in the middle of his first case as a barrister when he is summ..

Daniel Pitt is delighted that his sister is visiting London with her American husband Patrick a poli..

May 1911. Daniel Pitt is summoned to a murder scene in the slums of London's East End. He identifies..

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

D-Day 6 June 1944 was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation..

On a warm July evening in 1985 a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in Moscow ho..

In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944 a thin and unusually elegant housewife eme..

In June 1837 the 18-year-old Victoria wakes up to find that she is Queen of the most powerful nation..

Frances Sophie and Katie meet again at a school reunion and discover how their lives have changed. E..