80's comedy soap set in the north of England in the 1930's. Bradley Hardacre (Timothy West), owns the coal mine & almost everything else in the local town. His insatiable greed & lust for power, women & money knows no bounds. By contrast, the Fairchilds, at the other end of the social spectrum, live in a small house at the bottom of a hill, overlooked by the Hardacre's. When the children of both families start to discover each other, the stage is set for class war ...

North Yorkshire, 1992. A local colliery b&, led by Danny (Pete Postlethwaite), prepare for a national competition, despite the fact that they are faced with redundancy if their pit closes. Gloria (Tara Fitzgerald), the daughter of a former band leader, returns to the band & raises their spirits, beginning a relationship with one of their younger members (Ewan Mc Gregor). ...

When Tony Thorne first turned up for his medical in 1956, he had little idea of the adventures he would face & the people he would encounter in service. This title offers an account of life in National Service, where 23339788 Thorne faced the horrors of basic training, the boredom of the drill yard as well as the camaraderie of the squad. ...

A stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's sizeable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on Patrick's mannerisms, appearance & every significant detail of Patrick's early life, up to his 13th year when he disappeared & was thought to have drowned himself. ...