The Mitford Sisters: Rebels, Rivals and Scandal in 1930s Britain | History for Sleep

Six sisters raised in an English manor house between the wars. One became a beloved novelist, one a great duchess, one a communist fugitive, and two gave their loyalty to the most dangerous men in Europe. This quiet evening traces the lives of the Mitford sisters from their Oxfordshire childhood under the eccentric Lord and Lady Redesdale, through the shattered certainties of interwar England, and out into a century that would scatter them to the furthest corners of the world. Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, and Deborah grew up in the fading glow of English aristocratic life, raised for a settled, ordered world that was already disappearing beneath their feet. From a drawing room in Berlin to a wartime prison cell in London, theirs is one of the most extraordinary family stories the twentieth century has to offer. Settle in for a long and gentle evening with one of England's most fascinating families.