South Riding (2011)

Directed by

Diarmuid Lawrence

Genre

drama television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 3 episodes

Rated

TV-14

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman returns to her rural English hometown to become headmistress at a local school. She clashes with a local landowner over his plans for the area and grapples with personal and social struggles in 1930s Yorkshire.

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What happens

South Riding is a BBC serial in three parts from 2011, based on the 1936 novel South Riding by Winifred Holtby. It is directed by Diarmuid Lawrence and written by Andrew Davies. It stars Anna Maxwell Martin, David Morrissey, Peter Firth, Douglas Henshall, Penelope Wilton and John Henshaw. The first episode aired on BBC One 20 February 2011, the two remaining on the following Sundays. In the United States, it aired on the PBS anthology series Masterpiece in May 2011. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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