A Tale of Two Sisters

All Episodes 2017 - 2018

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  • 2017-05-18T19:00:00Z
  • 1h
  • 7h (7 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • Documentary
The relationships between female historical figures and their sisters. Explores the fascinating but sometimes fractious lives of aviation hero Amelia Earhart, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, and the infamous Mitford sisters.

7 episodes

Series Premiere

2017-05-18T19:00:00Z

1x01 Amelia and Grace Earhart

Series Premiere

1x01 Amelia and Grace Earhart

  • 2017-05-18T19:00:00Z1h

Amelia Earhart disappeared in 1937 but what actually happened to her is still a mystery. Her story and achievements however still captivate, thanks in no small part to her younger sister Muriel. Their bond, forged in childhood and tested in adulthood, could not be broken by death.

2017-05-25T19:00:00Z

1x02 Jessica and Diana Mitford

1x02 Jessica and Diana Mitford

  • 2017-05-25T19:00:00Z1h

The Mitfords were six, witty, eccentric and beautiful sisters. For two, their personal lives strayed into the political: Diana the fascist and Jessica the communist. But they were also shaped by experiences more familiar to us all – the trials and joys of family, of love, of grief, and of sisterhood.

Jackie Kennedy Onassis remains to this day iconic, a figure of high fashion and tragedy. Her sister Lee however is less well-known. Yet it is impossible to understand one without the other, their lives were intertwined – through rivalry and resentment, love and loss.

Season Premiere

2018-08-15T19:00:00Z

2x01 Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret

Season Premiere

2x01 Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret

  • 2018-08-15T19:00:00Z1h

The fascinating relationship between two British royal sisters comes under the microscope. Elizabeth is a mature, serious child with a love of dogs and horses. Meanwhile, her sister Margaret, four years younger, was a very different character - cheekier, mischievous, extrovert. How have these sisters and their relationship shaped the British monarchy?

2x02 Anne Boleyn & Mary Magdalen

  • 2018-08-22T19:00:00Z1h

Anne has been celebrated and damned, seen as either schemer or a victim. Her sister Mary is less remembered and often dismissed as a fool. But what was the truth?

Mary was a short-lived, little-favoured Catholic and Elizabeth a long-reigning, all-admired Protestant. However, Henry VIII's daughters have more in common than meets the eye.

2018-09-05T19:00:00Z

2x04 The Pankhurst Sisters

2x04 The Pankhurst Sisters

  • 2018-09-05T19:00:00Z1h

The final episode focuses on the tense relationship between suffragette leaders Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst, who had very different ideas on the struggle for equality.

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