East Anglia, 1584. When a young woman goes into labour a group of women, led by the local midwife, gather to guide her through the trials of labour. But as they celebrate the safe arrival of new life, a greater danger arrives at the door. A 16th century tale of community, power and resistance. Gossip tells the untold story of witches as they really were - midwives, healers, women with knowledge and power.
Jessica Bell
Maly
Tamzin Griffin
Helen
Audrey Carty
Constance
Lucy Jackson
Kate
Ursula Holliday
Willow
Delilah O’Riordan
Josie
Jasmine O'Riordan
Tilde
East Anglia, 1584. When a young woman goes into labour a group of women, led by the local midwife, gather to guide her through the trials of labour. But as they celebrate the safe arrival of new life, a greater danger arrives at the door. A 16th century tale of community, power and resistance. Gossip tells the untold story of witches as they really were - midwives, healers, women with knowledge and power.
During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with extravagant and outlandish antics. Among the group is the aspiring novelist Adam Fenwick-Symes, who is attempting to raise enough money to marry fellow member Nina Blount. However, after customs officials confiscate his first manuscript, Fenwick-Symes must recover from the financial setback and figure out new ways to earn money for a wedding.
The Football Factory is more than just a study of the English obsession with football violence, it's about men looking for armies to join, wars to fight and places to belong. A forgotten culture of Anglo Saxon males fed up with being told they're not good enough and using their fists as a drug they describe as being more potent than sex and drugs put together.
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.
In the aftermath of the Great Plague and amidst the subsequent witch-hunts against women, a young widow grapples with the tragic death of her husband in a society completely consumed by fear and death. Because she rejects the advances of her landlord, she is falsely accused of being a witch and thrown in jail for a crime she didn’t commit. She must endure physical persecution at the hands of England’s most ruthless witch-hunter and face her own inner demons as the devil himself starts to work his way into her mind.
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
Best friends Sophie and Agatha navigate an enchanted school for young heroes and villains — and find themselves on opposing sides of the battle between good and evil.
A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?