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- A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I - a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times.
- After the enforced absence of their father, three children move with their mother to Yorkshire, where during their adventures they attempt to discover the reason for his disappearance.
- Follow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who, like them, is far away from home.
- The story of Russian emigrant Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of nineteenth century. When Yanko enters a farm, sick and hungry after a shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy.
- Set in Northern England, this powerful tale of suppressed sexuality offers poignant and sharply observant social commentary, interlaced with a tender romance. Vetern actress Barbara Marten tugs at the heart as Ellen Hardy, a working-class mother unhappily married to Geoff and struggling with her feelings for another woman - her 10-year-old son's vivacious teacher, Kathy Thompson.
- A reserved schoolteacher battles against family conflict when he falls in love with the 'wrong' young woman.
- The Hodgkins family lives in a new suburb of a Yorkshire manufacturing town. Arthur, a railwayman, is buying the semi-detached house on a mortgage, having moved from rented accommodation in a terrace during the building boom of the early 'thirties. His wife, Mabel, devotes herself to the home and their family of four children, Jimmy (14), Patricia (12), Avril (8), and Edward (2).
- All the young women across the country aspire to Dior's New Look, but the cost is out of reach for most. Mabel is sure she can create a home-sewn version for Avril, who is struggling to find her way in adult life after her schooling was disrupted by the war. Meanwhile, the men in the family find it's harder to avoid the temptations of the black market than they thought.
- It's a big change for the nation - and Arthur - as Britain's railways are nationalised.
- Novelist Andrew Martin presents a documentary examining how the train and the railways came to shape the work of writers and film-makers. At the beginning of the railway age, locomotives were seen as frightening and unnatural - Wordsworth decried the destruction of the countryside, while Dickens wrote about locomotives as murderous brutes, bent on the destruction of mere humans. Martin traces how trains gradually began to be accepted -Holmes and Watson were frequent passengers- until by the time of The Railway Children they were something to be loved, a symbol of innocence and Englishness. He shows how trains made for unforgettable cinema in The 39 Steps and Brief Encounter, and how when the railways fell out of favour after the 1950s, their plight was highlighted in the films of John Betjeman. Finally, Martin asks whether, in the 21st century, Britain's railways can still stir and inspire artists.
- 2022–TV Episode
- When steam started to disappear in the 1950's, bands of volunteers got together to save some of the tracks and the steam engines that ran on them. The home movies they shot tell the story of how they did it, and how they helped people to reconnect to a world of steam almost lost forever.
- Michael begins this leg of his journey in the Worth Valley in Yorkshire at the home of the three Bronte sisters, who were early investors in the railway.