The unconventional family makes the move up north to Yorkshire and that’s when things really start to go wrong even before they have left London…

Robert has landed a new job in Yorkshire. Can he pluck up the courage to tell his ‘other mother’ the news?

Robert’s musical plans are thrown into disarray when he discovers one of the nurses is already singing ‘Little Donkey’ at the hospital Christmas concert. Wilfred helpfully suggests an alternative act…

Ida’s foolish eough to take Wilfred’s advice when he gives her an inside tip on a dead cert to win a horse race.

A crumpled note, which Ida finds in the pocket of Robert’s jacket, provokes a crisis.

Ida receives a postcard from Mrs. Price signed ‘Cecilia’ and decides something must be wrong because she never calls her by her first name!

When several of the neighbours cut Ida dead in the foyer of the block of flats, things are not quite what they seem.

Ida’s more than peeved with Robert when his boss invites his ‘other mother’, Mrs. Price, to a big shindig instead of her.

When Angie’s cousin has a baby, both she and Robert are slightly disgusted to be made its god parents.

Ida gets rather more than she bargained for when she goes to buy fish and chips.

Having looked forward to a nice quiet Christmas with Robert and Angie, Ida learns that Robert has invited his boss for Christmas dinner, which causes Ida to argue with Wildred,…

Wilfred get a whack with a loaf when he lets himself into the house while everyone else is out shopping. He brings good news; Maureen is going to marry a…

Angie thinks that Robert is getting stuck in a rut and insists that he go out for ‘an evening with the boys’. Neither he nor Ida is prepared for the…

Just as Ida and Angie are settling down to watch an old film on television, the set breaks down. Worse is to follow…

Ida’s name has somehow found its way onto the computer at the employment agency. She is quick to let them know that she is not available for work, but then…

Ida’s stars are not favourable today. When she sets out to change Angie’s blouse and buy her a floaty scarf at the local shop, she scarcely realises just how unlucky…

A chance encounter on a flight to Jersey leads to a very exciting fortnight for Ida!

Ida agrees to take part in a wakeathon to raise money for a worthy cause. She decides she needs a long sleep before it starts. She has trouble sleeping and…

It’ Sunday, and Ida’s feeling very house-proud; Robert’s ‘other’ mother is coming for tea. Already wondering how the visit will go, Ida finds things deteriorating when she breaks a tooth…

The women all prepare to leave Singapore to go back home, agreeing to have a reunion at Raffles in 1950, exactly five years after they separate. Joss dies in hospital….

Kate is distraught when Tom dies and seeks comfort from Sister Ulrica, who comes to the funeral even though Tom was a protestant. Kate also decides she definitely wants to…

The women all prepare to go home, and say goodbye to Alice as she sets sail for England. The Jeffersons’ marriage is clearly in trouble as Clifford sees how much…

The women start being questioned by the military to give evidence against Yamauchi and co for war crimes: Bea flips out, Mrs Van Meyer tells lots of lies and Maggie…

Sister Ulrica catches up with the other women and counsels Dorothy, who finds out her mother is dead and leaves to go back to England. Clifford and Marion have drifted…

Marion is reunited with Clifford, who is at the hotel waiting for her, and tells her Ben is okay. Clifford reveals he is in charge of leading the hunt for…

The women are met in Singapore by RAPWI officer Phyllis Bristow, who take their details, She wants to transfer Kate and Mrs Van Meyer to other groups, but they refuse…

Still looking for Clifford, Marion is asked to give evidence against Yamauchi. Joss meets up with Stephen Wentworth, an old friend of Monica’s (the women she spent most of the…

20 AUGUST 1945: Marion stops Maggie and her mob from attacking Sato and stops Kate taking down the Japanese flag. She explains to the women how things will work now….

1 JULY 1945: Two years have passed and the women are in another camp, this one in the site of a former prison. Times have been hard and many have…

3 SEPTEMBER 1943: Conditions continue to worsen inside the camp, not helped any by a drought and an increased work load. Marion’s diary is burned by the guards. The prisoners…

12 MAY 1943: Lillian and Bobby are transferred to another camp by Yamauchi following Marion’s request, when the other women and children bully them both and refuse to have anything…

30 APRIL 1943: The internees suffer severe punishments following Rose’s escape. She is brought back to the camp alive, but shot in the back; Bernard was killed at the scene….

22 APRIL 1943: With Christina’s help, Rose and Bernard arrange to sneak out of their camps and meet up in the jungle on the night of the Emperor’s Birthday, when…

31 MARCH 1943: Marion asks Yamauchi about Christina and the other women from the first camp; next day, Christina and Blanche are returned to join their friends. Bea is crestfallen…