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A Passionate Woman

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A Passionate Woman: Episode 1

Drama: Classic & Period

Drama: Relationships & Romance

Episode 1

BBC One - A Passionate Woman, Episode 1

Housewife Betty's world is turned upside down when she meets a handsome Polish man.

1950s period drama based on a true story. Housewife and mother Betty's world is turned upside down when she meets a handsome Polish man at the local dance hall.

Billie Piper and Sue Johnston star in this period drama based on a secret told to writer Kay Mellor by her mother.  

It's the 1950s. Betty lives in a cold, two-roomed flat in a shabby Victorian house situated in a deprived area of Leeds. Her husband Donald is focused on saving to get them out of there. 

Betty's sick of struggling to keep the flat warm for her baby son Mark, and she's tired of trying to make ends meet. The only respite she gets from the day to day drudgery is the glamour of the Balula Dance Hall, which she visits once a week with her vivacious sister Margaret. But Betty's world is turned upside down when a handsome Polish man called Craze asks her to dance...

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Period drama. A housewife's life is turned upside down by a handsome Polish man.

1950s period drama based on the true story of a housewife and mother whose life is turned upside down by a handsome Polish man at her local dance hall.

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