"Rejoining The Hour a year on in 1957, the team are still striving to broadcast the stories they believe in, grappling with the disturbing threat of the Cold War and a country in the grip of unsettling, rapid change. Bel is still single and determined not to get involved with another married man, but finds herself taking on her adversary Bill Kendall, an ITV producer whose magnetic charm she can't help but find irresistible. Hector has risen to the...

Presents the theory that the American dream, all but abandoned in the United States, has been adopted successfully in other countries, including Italy, France, Finland, Slovenia, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Tunisia, and Iceland, looking at such areas as worker benefits, public expenditure for the common good, and state-funded higher education.

"From Oscar and Emmy-winner Julian Fellowes, the creator of Downton Abbey, comes a sprawling HBO drama centered on the confict between old and new money in New York's glittering high society during the late 19th century. In a time of immense economic change, where fortunes are amassed and lost in the blink of an eye, Marion Brook (Louisa Jacobson), the orphaned daughter of a Union general, moves to Manhattan and becomes entangled in the social war...