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The lives and loves of a 1930s Yorkshire town explored in a passionate tale of politics in small places. South Riding charts the story of Sarah Burton's homecoming to Yorkshire in 1934 after twenty years teaching in London and the Empire. After a fiery interview with a conservative interview panel, outspoken Sarah takes up her first headmistress-ship at Kiplington High School for Girls, determined to demonstrate to her new pupils that the future is theirs for the taking.
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00:00I'm not sure you know what you're in for.
00:02Coming to the south riding from London.
00:04Actually, I do. I was born here.
00:07I thought she was very lively.
00:09This is 1934. The future is going to be very different.
00:12I mean, she'd stir things up a bit, wouldn't she?
00:14But do we want that?
00:17I want my girls to know that they can do anything.
00:19You're a remarkable woman.
00:22You've been disappointed in love during the queue.
00:24Bad things happen. Life goes on.
00:26Some places can change a person,
00:27but sometimes a person can change everything.
00:30Some people call this the last town in England,
00:32though we don't think so, of course.
00:34Welcome to South Riding.
00:36Coming soon to BBC One and BBC One HD.
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