A Tale of Two Cities

Season

1980

6.5

During the turbulent days of the French Revolution, Frenchwoman Lucie Manette falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay who's hiding his true identity and purpose.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Part 1

Lucie Manette must travel to pre-revolutionary France to find the father she thought was dead, a prisoner of eighteen years in the Bastille, now recalled to life.

S1 • E2

Part 2

Beneath the surface of these cities, how do people live and work? What are the differences, what are the similarities, what are the stories? A worker at an iron-smelting factory in Beijing; a winemaker on the outskirts of Canberra; a Hansard reporter for Australia's Parliament; weddings, farmers' markets, and school playgrounds.