Ray Marshall
The Secret
Period thriller serial. In the late 1880's reformed smuggler Freddie Musgrave has worked hard to turn a legitimate trade, but then a face from his past turns up threatening to ruin things for him.
A Dinner of Herbs
A man gets killed and his woman friend agrees to take on his surviving children. But as the decades started passing by, the children soon become aware of some painful secrets from the past.
Tilly Trotter
Young woman Tilly falls for a local farmer. Despite hardship she perseveres with resilience and self-belief. Her journey takes her from poverty to happiness. True love grows unexpectedly over time. Tilly stays strong-willed through it all.
Colour Blind
In industrial Tyneside during World War I, life for the McQueen family is turned upside down when daughter Bridget comes home with a black husband.
The Glass Virgin
In 1870s England, a wealthy woman uncovers a dark secret, prompting her to join her family's former groom on his caravan journey across Northumbria, navigating class divides and finding solace in their unlikely companionship.
The Cinder Path
Tale of a farmer's son who gets involved with two sisters, then goes to fight in the trenches in WW1.
The Black Velvet Gown
In the 1830's in northern England, Riah Millican, a widow with three children, takes a job as housekeeper to a reclusive former teacher, Percival Miller. Miller makes Riah the gift of a black velvet gown, and even educates her children.
The Black Candle
Yorkshire in the 1880's: Joe Skinner marries Lily Whitmore, the woman he has long admired, to give a name to her illegitimate child by Lionel Fillmore, the opportunistic son of an impoverished aristocrat. Lionel, however, has his sights set on Victoria, the naive cousin of hard-working Bridget Mordaunt, and the wealth he wrongly assumes is hers.
The Fifteen Streets
In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher of his highly intelligent younger sister Kathy and daughter of a rich family.