Brian Percival

While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being protected by her adoptive parents.

Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.

It's the spring of 1939. Big changes are happening at Skeldale House and everyone has to learn how to adjust. Tristan is now a qualified vet while James enters a new stage of his life with Helen and at the practice.

Produced to mark the 50th publication anniversary of James Herriot's warm autobiographical novels, this '30s-set "Masterpiece" series offering casts Nicholas Ralph as newly graduated veterinary surgeon Herriot, as he joins the rural Yorkshire Dales practice of eccentric Siegfried Farnon and his waggish younger brother Tristan.