The story of how Mr Rolls and Mr Royce got into the car manufacturing business.
Drama about Horatio Bottomley, financieer, founder of "John Bull", and a skilled fraudster and swindler.
Edith Bland was a very successful author and poet who wrote under the name _E. Nesbit_ . Many of her books were for children and several, such as The Railway Children (1970), were turned into film.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, has his own mystery to solve when he answers a call for assistance from George Edalji who claims to have been falsely convicted of mutilating animals and imprisoned. Edalji had been accused in a series of anonymous letters and Conan Doyle finds that the police seem to have re-interpreted evidence to fit the accused's movement. His spirited defense of Edalji in a newspaper article leads to friction with the powers that be, particularly in the police.
Robert Baden-Powell spent his life in the military and rose to the rank of Lieutenant General. He was a national hero for the defense of Mafeking in the Boer War. After his retirement from the Army, his last position was that of Inspector General, he concentrated on the group for which he is now best remembered, the Boy Scouts.
Set around the Edwardian Music Hall and entertainers such as Marie Lloyd.
Daisy, mistress of Edward VII and a convert to Socialism looks back at her life as she dictates her memoirs to Frank Harris.
Lloyd George - The paradox of a government politician (Anthony Hopkins) who was a force for social change and a great negotiator but an untiring philanderer as well.