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

After a family tragedy Janey Carhart was forced from her comfortable life as a captain’s daughter ..

October 1940. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Bancroft is working as a typist for a city newspaper but s..

When World War II breaks out Carrie Anderson sets up a bookstall at her local train station in the h..

An only child 15-year-old Angeline Stewart is heartbroken when her beloved parents are killed in a c..

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

A heart-breaking choice between love and duty...York 1886. Sarah-Lou has just left school and is re..

1915. While World War One changes the country with food becoming scarce and Britain's young men bein..

Lancashire 1936. With her son Gabriel finally married and her youngest following his dreams of becom..

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

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

From the age of eight Charity Crosse has been living with her grandfather and begging on the streets..

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

Summer 1916. Despite the misery of war in the air some things in the small hamlet of Strawbridge rem..

Dolly Perkins and Jack Larkin have grown up in the notorious gin palaces of Birmingham. It’s a wor..