Episode 1

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Duration: 1 hour

Denise Lovett, a young and ambitious country girl with only her wits to live on, arrives in a booming Northern city to take up a long-held promise of work in her uncle's drapery shop. But she soon discovers that her uncle cannot afford to employ her, as most of his customers have been seduced away by The Paradise, England's first department store, right across the street.

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Music Played

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  • Maurizio Malagnini Original Score

Credits

Miss Audrey
Sarah Lancashire
Moray
Emun Elliott
Denise
Joanna Vanderham
Dudley
Matthew McNulty
Jonas
David Hayman
Lucille
Laura Power
Edmund Lovett
Peter Wight
Sam
Stephen Wight
Clara
Sonya Cassidy
Pauline
Ruby Bentall
Katherine Glendenning
Elaine Cassidy
Arthur
Finn Burridge
Mrs Ballentine
Jenna Russell
Mrs Harkness
Helen Bradbury
Lord Glendenning
Patrick Malahide
Director
Marc Jobst
Producer
Simon Lewis
Writer
Bill Gallagher

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Video: Joanna Vanderham

Denise

Joanna details Denise’s appetite for retail - as well as for her boss.

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