Churchill's People
Synopsis
Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies. 26 episodes were produced by the BBC and initially broadcast from 30 December 1974 to 23 June 1975.
Series 1 Episodes
EP 1
43 AD: Lucius is one of several Roman spies sent into the offshore island of Pritan, quietly to study the ground before plans for the invas…
EP 2
400 AD: Among the splendours of his palace at Eboricum (York), Roman British governor Tiberius Claudius broods on what he believes to be th…
EP 3
654 AD: Two powerful adversaries face each other - Penda, pagan king of Mercia, and Oswy, Christian king of Northumbria.
EP 4
878 AD: King Alfred has suffered another defeat from the Danes and escapes through the Athelrey swamps to the safety of Odda's Hall. Disgu…
EP 5
1042: Godwin, Earl of Wessex, summons Edward from out of his exile in Normandy to wear the Crown of England. But the apparent security of G…
EP 6
1066-1070: Forest laws bring about a climax between the Saxons and the Normans.
EP 7
1160: In Norman England a man could will his movables to his kin and friends but only the next heir could inherit his land paying the overl…
EP 8
1191: King John is brought to his knees and signs the Magna Carta.
EP 9
1265: A runaway peasant accidentally witnesses a meeting between King Henry III and his chief Baron Simon de Montfort. Their argument indic…
EP 10
March 1296: The story of William Wallace, a rough Lanarkshire knight who strikes a blow for Scottish liberty by destroying the town of Lana…
EP 11
1381: Revolt in East Anglia when the peasants are pressed beyond endurance by taxes and misgovernment by inexperienced King Richard II. Bis…
EP 12
1440: When Henry V died, the feudal families of England began to prey upon each other. Royal upstarts succeeded one another until the natio…
EP 13
1538: Hugh Goodrest, a Warwickshire Lawyer, returns to his home town of Hales Owen to find the nearby Abbey and its inmates under investiga…
EP 14
1603-1618: Sir Walter Raleigh is tried on trumped-up charges of treason and imprisoned in the Tower. For 13 years he languishes in jail, st…
EP 15
1610: A Puritan family in Nottinghamshire, hounded by King James I for their opposition to Anglican orthodoxy, go into unhappy exile in Hol…
EP 16
January 1640: King Charles I rallies his troops to fight the Roundheads and loses his head and kingdom for the trouble.
EP 17
Burford, 15 May 1649: The Puritan revolution has reached its climax. The soldiers' democracy is over and Cromwell takes his revenge.
EP 18
1665: The Royalists return. But for John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, the Restoration means plague and despair.
EP 19
1689: The Protestant settlement in Ulster pre-empts King William's offensive against the Irish Jacobites. In Londonderry the apprentice boy…
EP 20
1720: Tom Mackenzie, a confidence trickster from Scotland, steals a certificate for £100 worth of South Sea Company stock. He uses this to …
EP 21
1772: The MacAmney family are evicted from their highland homestead by the landlord to make way for sheep. Selling everything they own, the…
EP 22
1775: An American judge who has settled in London reconstructs in an interview with a journalist his dispute with the radical Sam Adams, th…
EP 23
1781: Jack Gable apprehensively embarks on a new career as a clerk with the East India Company in Bengal. Under aegis of the lively Jack Po…
EP 24
1797: The men of an ill-governed Royal Navy refuse to put their ships to sea. Aaron Graham, a London magistrate, is sent to investigate the…
EP 25
1834: The Tolpuddle Martyrs are sent to Australia where a Tasmanian settler tries to get their service on his estates.
EP 26
1819-1837: The story of the Cato Street Conspiracy, the plot of a radical political group to assassinate two Government ministers as a prel…
