2009Drama1h 30m

Small Island

War, romance, infidelity and social unrest.

Follow three intricately connected stories of Jamaicans and Londoners involved in World War Two. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Hope and humanity meet stubborn reality as we trace the tangled history of Jamaica and the UK.

Information

StatusEnded
Original Languageen
Network
BBC One

Keywords

london, englandbased on novel or bookworld war iijamaicaminiseries1940s

Production

BBC
BBC