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Becky Sharp's journey from obscurity to high society and subsequent fall is depicted against the backdrop of Regency England and the Napoleonic Wars.

A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.

One time companion of the Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith returns to Earth and carries on with her journalist career. Now, in 1981, she has managed to rebuild her career and has come, a matter of days before Christmas, to her aunt Lavinia's (a famous scientist) house in the sleepy English village of Moreton Harwood to write a book and to rest after her world-travelling assignments. However, her journalist's nose sniffs out another mystery when she arrives to find Aunt Lavinia gone, and nobody knows where she is, but the local rumour is that she was the victim of a local witch coven. Worshipers of a pagan goddess Hecate gather to celebrate a festival by ritually murdering a friend of Sarah's. She needs help - and she gets it from a box from her friend "The Doctor." Inside the box is a metal robotic but almost human-like talking dog called K-9 that is built for Sarah Jane personally and together Sarah and K-9 sets out to solve the mystery and stop the killing of Sarah's friend.

In each episode or consecutive group of episodes (notably as Christmas season special), the expert team and some locals visit and present a remarkable British castle or other stately home. Each has his or her own angle, so the viewer gets relevant history and anecdotes on the building and its builders and residents -often one or more aristocratic families- as well as architecture, art and miscellaneous treasures, grounds, gardens and natural flora. Chef James Martin even prepares some recipes using typical ingredients from the region, which he also discovers on site.