KurzbeschreibungThe hugely successful BBC classic drama adapted from Elizabeth Gaskell's three novel s of small town gossip, secrets and romance.

1842. Cranford, a market town in the North West of E ngland, is a place governed by etiquette, custom and above all, an intricate network of ladies. It s eems that life has always been conducted according to their social rules, but Cranford is on the cus p of change...

For spinsters Deborah Jenkyns, the arbiter of correctness in Cranford, and Matty, her demurring sister, the town is a hub of intrigue - a handsome new doctor Frank Harrison from Lond on has arrived; a retired Army Captain and his daughters have moved in to a house opposite and the p reparations for Lady Ludlow's garden party are underway. Everyone - from charming rogue Dr Marshland to mean Mrs Jamieson and her lap dog - talks, and is talked about, behind closed doors.

The town also has its secrets which it slowly reveals; Matty's encounter with an old flame at the garden par ty; Lady Ludlow's land agent Mr Carter teaching a gypsy lad to read and write; the wild expectations of the May Day celebrations and - news that shakes the town when it is revealed - a railway line fr om Manchester is coming to Cranford.0

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Personen: Annis, Francesca