When an actor is brutally murdered in a tavern brawl, Nicholas Bracewell, manager of Lord Westfield'..

May 1915. With thousands of Britons fighting in the trenches, a severely depleted police force remai..

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1938, Britain and Germany are on the brink of war, and tension and fear is felt throughout Europe. I..

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February 1941. Julie Harris is working in London's East End as a midwife when a bombing raid destroy..

It is 1940 and Staff Nurse Polly Brown has been granted a posting at Cliffehaven Memorial Hospital o..

As the Japanese begin their assault on Singapore, Sarah Fuller and her sister Jane are forced to lea..

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When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym, she wonders brie..

An island shrouded in mist and a community with secrets buried in the past... An archaeologist study..