Activité sur North & South

BBC One · 2004

Synopsis · Ce feuilleton suit l'histoire de Margaret Hale, une jeune femme du sud de l'Angleterre qui doit se déplacer vers le Nord après que son père décide de quitter le clergé. La famille s'efforce de s'adapter aux coutumes de la ville industrielle, en particulier après la rencontre des Thornton, une famille fière de leur usine de coton qui semblent mépriser leurs inférieurs.

S1 E4 de North South

Synopsis · Frederick safely reaches Spain. After her father's death, Margaret leaves Milton to live with her aunt in London. Thornton learns that Frederick is Margaret's brother. With the money that she inherited from Mr. Bell, her godfather, she decides to help Mr. Thornton's mill from closing.

S1 E2 de North South

Synopsis · Maria Hale's health ceases and her daughter Margaret decides to contact her brother Frederick - who had to leave England years earlier due to a wrongful court decision. The mill workers in Milton go on strike. In order to get his orders done in time, Thornton hires Irish workers. The angry strikers hear of this and in an attempt to threaten Thornton they hurt Margaret. Overwhelmed at her willing help to save Thornton from the strikers, he decides to propose to Margaret.

S1 E1 de North South

Synopsis · Margaret Hale, a 19-year-old lively young girl, and her parents leave the south, when her father Richard resigns as the clergy in Helstone on a matter of conscience. The family moves to Milton in the north of England where Mr. Hale starts working as a private tutor. Margaret and her mother find it difficult to adapt to the north. While Margaret tries to deal with her new home and thereby befriends Bessy Higgins and her father Nicholas, poor local mill workers, she becomes aware of the social inequalities. On seeing John Thornton, a cotton-mill owner, badly treating one of his workers, Margaret's prejudices are reinforced. Thornton, on the other hand, forms a more positive opinion of Margaret.