This is a story of contrasts, between North and South, between rural and industrialised England, and above all between the central characters of Margaret Hale and John Thornton, the millowner In...

Prunella Scales reads the classic tale by Elizabeth Gaskell - complete and unabridged.

'It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor... I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant...

Paul Manning is working away from home as the assistant to Mr Holdsworth, a managing railroad engineer. He makes contact with his distant relatives, the Holmans, who live nearby and welcome him...

Mary Barton is the daughter of a good and upright trade unionist, John Barton. She attracts two men, Jem Wilson, a fellow worker, and Henry Carson, son of her father’s employer. When the union...

The orphaned heroine Ruth, apprenticed to a dressmaker, is seduced and then abandoned by wealthy young Henry Bellingham. Shamed in the eyes of society by her illegitimate son, and yet rejecting...

When Mr Robinson Higgins moves into the White House at Barford, he is an instant hit with society. Assured by his old friend Sir Harry that Higgins is a gentleman, old Squire Hearns decides to...