Jenny Simmons has always thought of herself as the ugly duckling of her family so when she blossoms ..

Sunderland 1943: With the future of Britain uncertain the shipyard girls fight to keep their lives o..

1914. While their men fight in France at home in Britain women are finally seizing the opportunity t..

Liverpool 1868. Shrouded in secrecy Alice Sampson gives birth to a beautiful baby girl. But the form..

Manchester 1908. Attractive intelligent Mary Maitland is furious to learn that her pompous boss will..

When Pearl’s grandmother Nell dies unexpectedly she and her family - mother Diana sister Lucy - re..

1943 and The Bluebird Girls are at the top of their game. They are touring with ENSA visiting army b..

When Alice Verinder’s beloved sister Lydia goes missing Alice boards the Orient Express bound for ..

Patty Jenkins has come a long way from her poverty-stricken days in Brownlow Hill workhouse. She now..

Dympna Byrne lives a simple life with her family on the Connemara coast. She adores her father Miche..

Aurora Pettigrew has a loving family a nice home a comfortable life. She's waiting for the right man..

When Stella Swift is discovered holding a shard of broken glass near her newborn baby fears that she..

Gosport 1941. The Bluebird Girls - Rainey Bird Bea Herron and Ivy Sparrow - are on their way to star..

Manchester 1922. Belinda Layton is a surplus girl. One of the many women whose dreams of marriage pe..

Clara is forced to flee her home as the Nazis invade the beautiful island of Guernsey. Separated fro..

Liverpool 1940. As the Luftwaffe turns its attention to Liverpool Shane Quinn decides to move his fa..

Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia. She's not intending to stay long but after track..

Sunderland 1942. With the war showing no sign of abating Helen is thriving in her role as shipyard m..

Young Maisie Halliday has escaped the grinding poverty of the northern town where she was born to li..

Tilly has come a long way from the run-down tenements in which she grew up. She has a comfortable ho..

After Ruth Dixon's mother deserts her on Christmas Eve her father comes home drunk and commits an un..

1936. West Yorkshire is home to a gleaming brand-new telephone exchange where Cynthia Norma and Mill..

Liverpool 1939. Sixteen-year-old Lizzy Atherton is forced to flee her violent stepfather in the midd..

Sunderland 1942: Christmas is fast approaching. Against all odds Polly's fiancé has finally returne..

It wasn't a privileged childhood but it was a happy one. Sybil and Lizzie Cream brought up in a fish..

When her husband a known Nazi supporter is released from prison Celia refuses to return to her unhap..

Dover 1864. Violet Rayfield leads a happy life with her family in a beautiful terrace on Camden Cres..

Rainey Bird Ivy Sparrow and Bea Herron all love to sing. For Rainey music has been a solace during t..

When her mother dies in childbirth Pearl Edwards is left in the care of her aunt Annie Grafton. Anni..

Barbara Roberts pretty mischievous and 17 has grown up wanting for nothing. But a long-buried family..

In 1898 three young girls leave a Dublin orphanage to enter a life of domestic service. They are pla..

Margate 1884. When 17-year-old Hannah Bentley fled the family home she never dreamed she'd find her ..

Sunderland 1942: Polly's heart and her future are hanging in the balance...Polly's sweetheart Tommy ..

Deploring social injustice Lady Deborah Claremont opens a staff agency concealing the fact that she'..

Having lost her father during the Great War and her mother a famous French impressionist painter in ..

Summer 1942. Britain is in the depths of war and the Women's Land Army is hard at work looking after..

Minnie Maddox cares deeply for mothers and their babies - she makes a living by taking in unwanted c..

Hull 1930. A terrified woman runs through the dark rain-lashed streets pursued by a man desperate to..

Liverpool 1917. When Irish seaman Michael Gallagher docks in Liverpool after years of fighting with ..

Separated from each other soon after being taken from their mother Tilly by a travelling group of gy..

After the tragic death of her father aspiring singer Jessie Delaney has been forced to live with her..

Her father is dead and her mother doesn't want her... When Babby's dad is killed in a senseless bar ..

Following a terrible storm seven-year-old Lottie is rescued from a shipwreck by local Cornishman Arn..

Eliza Wild has come a long way from her hungry childhood days in a rented miner's cottage on Pit Lan..

The war is almost over - and it's up to the East End Angels to keep the home fires burning! Frankie'..

It's 1943 and Ireland has escaped the worst of the war raging in Europe but life is still hard. When..

Mary is a driver for the ATA and although she yearns to fly a Spitfire she fears her humble backgrou..

Hull 1852. Matty has been the mother to her three younger sisters since their mother’s death ten y..

Peace has finally been declared in the Far East but for those living at Beach View Boarding House th..

A new century brings change to Eden Harris's ordered world. Despite years of service to the Bradbury..

Liverpool 1870. On the dirty backstreets of Liverpool housemaid Maud Linklater witnesses an appallin..