Introduction Anna Maxwell Martin and David Morrissey lead the cast in South Riding , Andrew Davies 's new three-part adaptation for BBC One of the novel by Winifred Holtby . Producer Lisa Osborne says: "South Riding is a sweeping, panoramic story about an entire community living on the edge of England in the 1930s, beset by economic crisis, doing what they can to make the world a better place. "It's deeply attractive from a producer's point of view for the chance to bring to the screen a little-known novel, set in a rarely seen English landscape, with a great cast of rich and real characters, and with universal themes that make it as accessible to a contemporary audience as it was when it was written. "From Sarah Burton ( Anna Maxwell Martin ), the crusading head teacher who arrives in Yorkshire with a mission to reform; Lydia ( Charlie May-Clark ), the slum child with a passion to...