South Riding

South Riding

All 13 episodes of the 1970s ITV drama based on the novel by Winifred Holtby. Yorkshire headmistress Sarah Burton (Dorothy Tutin) is a left-wing feminist who is disgusted to realise that her plans for her pupils will be stymied by the social injustices they face. She also finds herself falling in love with Tory landowner Robert Carne (Nigel Davenport), whose wife is suffering from insanity, and whose core beliefs stand in opposition to her own.

The episodes are: 'The Powers That Be', 'A Land of Hope and Glory', 'Those for, and Those Against', 'A Time to Live and a Time to Die', 'The Facts of Life', 'In Sickness and in Health', 'Dreams and Destinations', 'Beggars and Choosers', 'Take What You Want and Pay for It', 'The Lord Giveth and the Lord Taketh Away', 'The Number of Our Days', 'Forgive Us Our Trespasses' and 'Give Us This Day'.