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Anna Maxwell Martin and David Morrissey lead the cast in Andrew Davies's new three-
Writer Andrew Davies says: "What appealed to me most about South Riding is how fresh
and relevant it feels, even though it was written and set in the Thirties. It's a
terrific love story but it's also a portrait of a whole community in turmoil, with
the country in recession, and bitter struggles between the advocates of change, like
our heroine Sarah the new forward-
"It's also full of rich comedy, with some wonderful minor characters, splendidly cast. I feel as if we've rediscovered a forgotten masterpiece."
Aftermarth of the First World War
In the long aftermath of the First World War, Sarah Burton (Maxwell Martin), comes home from London to Yorkshire. Having lost her chance of marriage and motherhood with her fiancé's death in the trenches, Sarah has become a very modern career woman, one of the "surplus two million" identified by the Daily Mail in 1920 as women who were unlikely to marry since their generation of men had been wiped out by war.
Now in her thirties, Sarah has come home to take up the position of headmistress at a struggling Yorkshire high school for girls. She is the very image of a modern woman, much more recognisable to her sisters in 2010 than she would have been to her contemporaries in 1935, full of ambition, passion and fire to take her life into her own hands and live it to the very limit of her strength.
But love has not finished with Sarah Burton – before the end of the story she must choose between the career she has fought for and the man least likely to have won her heart.
The Great Depresssion
As Britain emerges from the Great Depression, Robert Carne (Morrissey) finds he is an unlikely victim of a financial disaster. His family has farmed the South Riding for hundreds of years and he ought to be able to ride out the agricultural depression, cushioned by generations of family wealth.
But Carne is a man haunted by love, and he has spent most of the farm's income over the past 20 years trying to wipe out the guilt he still feels for the woman he believes he destroyed.
Past and present collide in South Riding
Past and present collide when Sarah Burton returns to the South Riding and clashes with the handsome haunted gentleman farmer. Their story is only one strand of a rich skein which tells the story of a small town community instantly recognisable to any age and in any part of the country.
Lydia Holly’s story
Full of humour, pathos and tragedy, South Riding also tells the story of Lydia Holly
(Charlie Clark), a 14-
Shaun Dooley is Lydia's feckless father, Mr Holly; Miss Sigglesthwaite (Brid Brennan)
is the incompetent science mistress of the high school who struggles to instil order
over her pupils; Midge Carne (Katherine McGolpin), is the delicate and troubled daughter
of Robert and his ill-
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South Riding is a rich, compassionate and humane story of politics in small places and, in the end, the indestructibility of the human spirit.
Made by BBC Drama Production North for BBC One. Written by Andrew Davies (Bleak House,
Sense And Sensibility, Little Dorrit, Anglo-
BBC drama series - South Riding
A portrait of a Yorkshire community in the Thirties
Starring Anna Maxwell Martin, David Morrissey, Charlie Clark. Shaun Dooley, Penelope Wilton & John Henshaw
© BBC Drama Production
Photograph of the cast of the BBC drama South Riding
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