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Glenda Jackson stars in this compelling drama series inspired by Émile Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, highlighting different aspects of contemporary Britain. In 2015, double Oscar winner Glenda Jackson made a triumphant return to acting in Radio 4's Blood, Sex and Money, a radical reimagining of Émile Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle. Now, she reprises her role as matriarch/narrator in this eclectic mix of dramas inspired by Zola's novels, but set in modern Britain.

Lily Moonbeam’s kitchen had three modes: simmer, sputter, and smoke. She preferred the first, but the cottage stove had opinions of its own. This morning it gurgled a warning as she whisked dried foxglove into a viscous red broth, the spoon already sticky with what she hoped would be the final step in curing Midnight chronic hairball problem. She leaned over the pot, breath held, as the mixture shifted from angry burgundy to a soothing, peony pink.

When 60-something musician pals Roy and George attend the funeral of an old bandmate, they realise that since they stopped performing, they've got stuck in a rut. Retirement's all well and good, but they seem to spend most of their time in front of the TV, or propping up the bar at the Hen & Pewter. Believing that jazz players should keep swinging while they've still got rhythm, the duo decide it's time to recreate the good old days, and start a new band.