Following heavy casualties General Townsend withdraws his exhausted troops to the town of Kut Al Ama..

1916 Mesopotamia. The Turks order prisoners from the siege of Kut to march the hundreds of miles to ..

Fisher College at Cambridge lies between St John’s and Trinity Colleges. Here one morning the bedm..

1859 St. Mary’s Church Sponden. A little girl playing hide-and-seek jumps into a freshly dug grave..

Amory Ames is investigating the disappearance of valuable jewellery snatched at a dinner party and l..

Henriette d’Entragues isn’t satisfied with simply being mistress of Henry IV of France she wants..

A beautiful and talented actress Mary Robinson was one of the most famous women of her time. But Mar..

In the aftermath of the Second World War two women leave England for new lives as GI brides. Gracie ..

Ivy Rose Murphy dreams of a better future. For years she has set out daily from the tenements known ..

When Tsar Alexander II decided to drag Russia into the industrial age he began by inviting Welsh bus..

1939: The unexpected death of Sandra Anderson dramatically and ruthlessly changes forever the lives ..

Deirdre Fitzpatrick is married to a man who wants to know where she really goes when supposedly taki..

Battered bruised and washed up on the banks of a remote loch the Lullaby Girl doesn't know who or wh..

A brutal game devised by three intelligent but bored teenagers escalates into murder. Led by the cha..

When a customer of William Doughty’s Bayswater chemist shop dies of strychnine poisoning after dri..