1910. Halley's Comet is coming. Harry Houdini the most celebrated escape artist in the world has sol..

Jean Parris was a child when her adored father was taken away by the Nazis. As she and her mother wa..

Oscar Hammerstein is asked to write the lyrics to a musical based on the life of Maria von Trapp: a ..

Winifred Maxwell is found guilty of treason and her brother William could be found guilty of the sam..

French chef Sylvie was sent to Paris as part of the resistance while German soldier Christoph is doi..

At age 14 Princess Salome knows she will soon be ready for marriage - one that will satisfy the ambi..

Western Australia 1909. William Watson's beloved father is set on an expedition to the north-west to..

London 1921 - Jean Buckman a young and innocent American heiress arrives in England to find a societ..

1952. As a telephonist in the Royal Household Helen Hill hears many private conversations daily. And..

France 1351: Kemp and his men are captured in a skirmish near Calais and subsequently imprisoned in ..

When young doctor Kit Stone returns to Britain a female associate of his brother Henry secures him a..

In 1942 a group of young women arrive in Cairo Egypt. The Tuis named after the beautiful New Zealand..

England 2001. Elizabeth has always suspected her mother harbours a secret from her time as a young w..

Flora Thompson was born in 1876 at Juniper Hill on the Oxfordshire/Northamptonshire border. She is b..

May 1964. At a youth festival in East Berlin an unlikely young couple fall in love. In the bright sp..