It was a time when England was a nation on the cusp of change, an evolving landscape that lay between Victorian England and the First World War.

The Edwardians explores the lives of and events in the lives of many who helped define this era, the “Belle Epoque”. Inventors, artists, writers, performer, soldiers, politicians – they would shape a nation in their own fields, in their own lifetime, in their own way.

Mr. Rolls and Mr. Royce:
Written by: Iain Curteis
Starring: Michael Jayston, Robert Powell
Directed by Gerald Blake
They were two conflicting personalities, one a committed engineer, the other a racing adventurer, who together created the finest automobile in history.

Horatio Bottomley
Written by: Julian Bond
Starring: Timothy West
Directed by: Alan Clarke
The tale of a rogue financier, publisher, politician and public orator who rose to great heights, then scandalised his way into prison and onto the music hall stage.

E. Nesbit
Written by: Ken Taylor
Starring: Judy Parfitt
Directed by: James Cellan Jones
Examines the very adult life of this famous children’s author and her “open” marriage – a social experiment that shocked the so-called civilised world.

Conan Doyle
Written by: Jeremy Paul
Starring: Nigel Davenport
Directed by: Brian Farnham
Discover the true-life detective at the heart of Sherlock Holmes’s creator, whose investigations would seek to liberate an innocent man unjustly accused.

Baden-Powell
Written by: John Prebble
Starring: Ron Moody
Directed by: Robert Knights
Takes the hero of Mafeking and follows the path he took that led to the visionary creation of the Boy Scouts, an institution which redirected the course of generations of young lives.

The Reluctant Juggler
Written by: Alan Plater
Starring: Georgia Brown
Directed by: Brian Farnham
Goes behind the velvet curtain of the Music Hall as one performer must decide – in a night of frivolity and bawdiness - whether he will seek to improve his lot by joining a new concept – a union.

Daisy
Written by: David Turner
Directed by: James Cellan Jones
Starring: Virginia McKenna
Looks back at a time when a woman might take a lover to improve her husband’s position in society, and the effect this had on the life and times of “Daisy”, Countess of Warwick.

Lloyd George
Written by: Keith Dewhurst
Directed by: John Davies
Starring: Anthony Hopkins
Brings us to the end of an era as the famous and esteemed Welsh Prime Minister faces political and personal challenges that will impact his life and change the nation.

This series dramatises the turning points in the careers of nine pioneering Edwardians

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