South Riding

South Riding

BAFTA TV AWARD® winner
Season 1
In the long aftermath of the First World War, 30-year-old Sarah Burton leaves London and comes home to take up the headmistress-ship of a struggling Yorkshire high school for girls. But the homecoming is complicated and before long her ambitions are in conflict with her feelings for the man least likely to have won her heart - Robert Carne, the handsome, haunted gentleman farmer she clashes with.
IMDb 7.220113 episodes7+
Drama
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - South Riding: Episode 1

    February 19, 2011
    52min
    TV-PG
    Fiery teacher Sarah Burton comes home to the South Riding full of ambition and hunger to change the world while landowner Robert Carne is persuaded to send his delicate daughter Midge to school.
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  2. S1 E2 - South Riding: Episode 2

    February 26, 2011
    52min
    TV-PG
    Sarah's ideals are turned inside out when an everyday tragedy hits close to home and she realises that it is not as easy as she thinks to change the world. At Maythorpe, Robert Carne is living with the consequences of a single act of madness almost fifteen years before.
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  3. S1 E3 - South Riding: Episode 3

    March 5, 2011
    52min
    TV-PG
    Sarah throws herself into work to take her mind off the pain of unexpected, unrequited love while Carne reluctantly comes to terms with the idea that his beloved Muriel can never be restored to him.
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