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Turn Back Time: The Family

Turn Back Time: The Family: Episode 1

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The Family

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Three modern families find out what family life is like in the Edwardian era.

Three families experience life across five different eras of British history. The Taylors, Meadows and Goldings try to live as Edwardian families across different social classes.

The Edwardian era pushes the three modern families to their limits. 

There is a rude awakening for the Polo-playing Meadows family, who take on the role of being an Edwardian working-class family and must cope with the impact of poverty on their lives, as they and their two daughters adapt to a new role as breadwinners.

The Taylor family live the lives of their ancestors as an upper-middle-class Edwardian household. Formality and etiquette mean the Taylor family must live very separate lives and mum Adele struggles as her familiar role as wife and working mum is stripped away.

Finally, the Golding family are desperately hanging on to their newly acquired social status as a middle-class family, but for dad Ian it is a chance to put his theories on the benefits of discipline into practice.

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Three families experience life across five different eras of British history.

Exploring what it means to be a mother, father and child in British society today and throughout 100 years of change, as three modern families experience life across five eras of British life

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