South Riding. Episode 1 of 3.

First broadcast 20th February 2011.

Television adaptation of Winifred Holtby's 1936 novel.

Blacksmith's daughter Sarah Burton returns to her native Yorkshire, after twenty years' teaching in London and South Africa, for an interview to be head mistress of Kiplington Girls' School.

Anna Maxwell Martin as Sarah Burton
David Morrissey as Robert Carne
Peter Firth as Alderman Snaith
Douglas Henshall as Joe Astell
Penelope Wilton as Mrs. Beddows
John Henshaw as Alfred Huggins
Shaun Dooley as Mr. Holly
Jennifer Hennessy as Mrs. Holly
Janine Mellor as Bessy Warbuckle
Charlie May Clark as Lydia Holly
Katherine McGolpin as Midge Carne
Lydia Wilson as Muriel Carne
Daniel West as Young Robert Carne
Ian Bartholomew as Gaius Drew
Bríd Brennan as Miss Sigglesthwaite
John-Paul Hurley as Reg Aythorne
Penny Layden as Mrs Huggins
Marie Critchley as Mrs Brimsley