South Riding

Author

Diarmuid Lawrence

Call Number

• DVD DRAMA (OSH)

Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Anna Maxwell Martin, David Morrissey, Charlie May-Clark, Shaun Dooley, Brid Brennan, Katherine McGolpin, John Henshaw, Penelope Wilton, Douglas Henshall, Peter Firth.

Publication Information

[London] : BBC Worldwide Ltd. : 2 Entertain Video ; [New York] : Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas ; Burbank, CA : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video, c2011.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (ca. 177 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

In depression-hit Thirties Britain, Sarah Burton returns from London to her Yorkshire hometown to take up the post of headmistress at a struggling girls' school. Full of ambition, she is determined to create a great school and to inspire her girls. As Sarah struggles against the crippling poverty of the district, she meets those at the heart of her local community, including a brilliant but poor student and a proud, haunted landowner to whom she finds herself drawn even though he stands for everything she detests.

Notes

Title from container.

From the novel by Winifred Holtby.

Originally broadcast as a television mini-series on the BBC and as episodes of Masterpiece on PBS in 2011.