South Riding: The Complete Series

A multi award-winning series based on Winifred Holtby’s most enduring novel, South Riding stars Dorothy Tutin as headmistress Sarah Burton and Nigel Davenport as the ambitious landowner Robert Carne. A huge success for ITV, it was adapted for the screen by noted writer and novelist Stan Barstow. In the Council Chambers of the South Riding new forces are at work. For Robert Carne hope and tradition die hard. Meanwhile, Sarah Burton returns to her native county for a fateful interview, full of ambition and high ideals. The winds of change are blowing over the South Riding – and nothing will be the same again.