Matthew Lewney

If life is about change, a bored, single and seemingly friendless office worker needs a big one. But will a big material change alter the fabric of who he is or what he sees in the world? Does living always mean changing?

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.