Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark (Aidan Turner) returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ruins: his father dead, the family mine long since closed, his house wrecked and his sweetheart pledged to marry his cousin. But Ross finds that hope and love can be found when you are least expecting it in the wild but beautiful Cornish landscape.
Brilliant pastiche of Dallas/Dynasty/Sons & Lovers set in the northern town of Utterly in the 1930's The story of the Hardacres and the FairchildsTimothy West stars as Bradley Hardacre self-made man and owner of just about everything.