Agatha Christie was one of the greatest thriller writers of all time. In 1926 she was at the centre of a mystery as perplexing as any of her fiction which sparked one of the most extensive police hunts in history when she was missing, presumed dead, for eleven days. When she was eventually found in the Swan Hydro Hotel in Harrogate she claimed she was suffering from amnesia and remembered nothing.

Neither the press nor the police believed her.....

The idea that behind every great man, there is a great woman, was never more true in the case of Clementine Churchill. Winston said, "my most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me."

Enid Blyton was loved by children. She sold more than 600 million books, despite all her work being banned by the BBC and many libraries and schools for more than thirty years.  She was accused of being a racist and of using such limited vocabulary that it actually hindered children's reading progress. She had an interesting love life. She enjoyed playing golf so much that she bought a golf course near Swanage.  She died of Alzheimer's in 1968 aged 71, mourned by millions of readers all over the world. 

Liz Grand plays this remarkable and controversial woman and brings you Enid Blyton's incredible story.

When Shakespeare died he famously left his wife Anne only one thing in his will, the second best bed.

The play is set on the night of Shakespeare's funeral. The wake has finished and the mourners have all gone home, leaving Anne to remember her life with the most talented playwright the world has ever seen....Or was he? Did he write the plays? Surely Anne would know!

Meet Joseph, just about the worst carpenter in Nazareth. He first got to know his wife, Mary, when she returned to complain about a table she had bought from him. It didn't stop him asking her out and they eventually got married. A pretty unremarkable marriage until Mary announced that she is pregnant and that Joseph is not the father.

The boy grows up to have a remarkable talent with wood but he has more important things to do than make furniture and he must set out on the road to his destiny.

Emmeline Pankhurst is one of the most influential and well-known British women to have ever lived. She fought tirelessly for women to have the vote. She was imprisoned several times, and went on hunger strike many times. Having failed to make any impression on parliamentarians for nearly thirty

years, she became an advocate of Direct Action. 

The suffragettes threw stones at politicians, set fire to letter boxes, torched buildings and chained themselves

to railings. Although the Suffragettes were eventually successful, many brave women suffered terribly during the fight. Emmeline was not universally popular. Many women believed that if the suffragettes had been less confrontational, the vote for women might have come much quicker.