Both instalments of the 2009 Christmas special of the BBC costume drama starring Judi Dench. The two-part episode picks up the story in September 1844, a year since the small Cheshire market town celebrated the wedding of Sophy (Kimberley Nixon) & Dr Harrison (Simon Woods). Miss Matty (Dench) knows only too well that faces will always come & go in Cranford, but for now she is happy that her brother Peter (Nicholas Le Prevost) is home from India & that Martha (Claudie Blakley) is enjoying her newfound motherhood. Meanwhile, Lady Ludlow (Francesca Annis) is awaiting the return of her son Septimus (Rory Kinnear), & young Harry Gregson (Alex Etel) is set to begin his education at Shrewsbury.