BBC One · Ended

Hard Times

Drama · 1994

Last aired: S1 E4, Episode 4 · 1994-05-20

This extraordinary production captures the soot and smoke that blot out the sun in dank, industry-choked Coketown. Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion.