Season 1 · Episode 4 — Knockback (1)
In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lonely and depressed after a failed marriage and with two young children to bring up alone, seeks a new direction in her life and applies to become a voluntary prison visitor. Several years later, their paths cross.
Season 1 episodes
E1A platoon of British soldiers aggressively descend upon a car on a Northern Irish border roadside and promptly execute the driver and appre…
E2He is a respectable pillar of London society who yearns for an idyllic existence away from the noise and the smoke. She feels hemmed in by…
E3Mavis's plight will ring a bell in the heart of anyone who ever felt like murdering a telephone. Is some ghoulish mind behind the increasin…
E4In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, l…
E5Alan and Sylvia fall in love and Alan gains a renewed sense of purpose. He begins to hope for an eventual release on licence. However both…
E6It is the Easter holidays at Gorse Park Preparatory School. Everyone has gone home except four elderly members of staff and young Paul Blak…
E7The soldier in the spinal carriage can neither move nor speak. Who is he? His fellow wounded and officers are intent on finding out.
E8On a chilly winter's day in 1911, Kitty and Tom Higdon arrived in the Norfolk village of Burston to take up positions in the village school…
E9"It's a city of glass. There are trees and flowers from all over the world. And marble. Acres of it. And in a field, there are cows as stil…
E10A department head within the British secret service uncovers some unpleasant secrets when he investigates the apparent suicide of a colleag…