Kerrie Taylor

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

In the small, fictional Yorkshire town of Skelthwaite is an engaging story of life, love, family and people’s ever-changing fortunes in rural England. Set against the rugged landscape of Yorkshire, it follows the busy professional and family lives of District Nurses, as they bring nursing and emotional care to young and old alike. The first four series concentrates on the lives of district health nurses Peggy Snow and Ruth Goddard. The story expands to focus on the lives of more Skelthwhaite residents, particularly those related to the nurses as well as those employed in a local toilet tissue factory.

In June 2016, Britain voted to leave the European Union. In the hastily-established Department for Exiting the EU, newly-promoted Clive Everard finds himself in charge of delivering Brexit. The most complicated divorce in history has begun.

A grieving widow now confines herself and her ageing terrier indoors, until the arrival of ‘Jaggers’ leads to a sign from the afterlife she’s been so desperately seeking.