Philip Glenister

When his pregnant daughter is kidnapped, Prison Officer David Murdoch (Philip Glenister, Steeltown Murders) is forced to help a prisoner escape in order to get her back.

Joanna finds an unidentified man dead in a lift in a underground car park after a devastating flood, police assumes that he became trapped as the waters rose, but she is obsessed with discovering what happened to him.

When the Trenchards accept an invitation to the now legendary ball hosted by the Duchess of Richmond on the fateful evening of the Battle of Waterloo, it sets in motion a series of events that will have consequences for decades to come in this scandal-filled costume drama series.

Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.