South Riding

Name: South Riding
Released: 2011-02-19T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Shaun Dooley, Douglas Henshall, Penelope Wilton

TV Show · Drama

The lives, loves and politics of a 1930s Yorkshire community are explored in Andrew Davies's adaptation of Winifred Holtby's novel, starring David Morrisey and Anna Maxwell Martin.

2011 · 59m

Starring Shaun Dooley, Douglas Henshall, Penelope Wilton

Director Diarmuid Lawrence

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

Period drama charting the story of Sarah Burton, a teacher who returns to Yorkshire to take up her first headmistress-ship after 20 years teaching in London and the Empire.

52m
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

Drama series. Sarah's ambitions for her school find their focus in the gifted eldest child of a labourer and his wife, who live with their children in a shanty town on the cliffs.

52m
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

Drama series. Sarah throws herself into work to take her mind off the pain of unrequited love, while Carne comes to terms with the idea that Muriel can never be restored to him.

52m