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In these two series, set on selected dates in January 1895 and December 1896, we follow the day-to-day shenanigans of Bridgford station master Joe Braddock and his staff, along with a motley crew of passengers and passers-by. Each episode is a self-contained drama, as well as telling the ongoing story of the crises and challenges tackled by the team, and their rivalries, enmities, friendships and burgeoning romances.

It is the winter of 1946, and after years of war, ex-Special Operations executive agent Duncan Forrester is back at his Oxford college as a junior ancient history fellow. But his peace is shattered when a much-disliked Fellow is found dead in the quad, stabbed and pushed from an upper window. A don is suspected and arrested for the murder, but Forrester is not convinced of his friend's guilt.

Duncan Forrester has travelled to Greece, intent on recovering the ancient Cretan stone he discovered during the war while part of an SOE mission to kidnap a German commander. But during a visit to Athens, he witnesses the poisoning of a Greek poet, who, it appears, may have not been the intended target. The man Forrester believes to have been marked for death is a general, who has been approached to lead ELAS, the military arm of the Greek communists.

The third Duncan Forrester mystery adventure, set in 1947, features Ernest Bevin, the creation of Israel, and a Sumerian demon - plus a luxurious voyage on the Queen Mary to New York and Forrester's best chance of romantic happiness for years.

An extraordinary tale of pre-Victorian England, telling the story of the determined young farm boy from Kent who saved Charles Dickens from becoming a factory worker, operated the notorious chess-playing mechanical Turk, took on the London underworld, played a crucial role in the invention of the steam engine and organized one of the most successful rebellions in British history. A roller-coaster ride through the beginnings of the modern era.