Judy Parfitt

Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.

Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.

A young peasant maid (played by Scarlett Johansson, Black Widow) working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth, The King's Speech) becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.