Diana Rigg, 1960s icon of TV, film and stage, is best known for playing Emma Peel in the Avengers and Tracy Di Vicenzo, the only woman whom James Bond married.
What is less well known about her is that she grew up in India, the daughter of a railway engineer in the final days of the British Raj. In Episode One of Empire’s Children she retraces her family’s journey to India to discover more about their life.
Her father was employed by Maharaja Ganga Singh on the Rajasthan railway and was to work there for more than 20 years. But the Indian independence movement was already gathering pace. British rule, which had been maintained in India for over 300 years, would soon be swept away, forcing Louis and his family to return to a changed Britain.

Jenny Eclair is an award-winning comedian and novelist, regularly seen on the TV programme ‘Grumpy Old Women’. Jenny was a ‘Forces’ child, born in post-colonial Malaysia while her father, Derek Hargreaves, was posted there.Derek, now 82, was first posted to Malaya in 1952 as a lieutenant fighting the communist uprising in the jungle. Jenny wanted to retrace his footsteps and unravel his part in the Malayan Emergency, a 12-year guerrilla war fought by Malayan Chinese communists against the British. As military strategy turned to winning over the Malayans, the Emergency was to become known as the ‘Battle for Hearts and Minds’.

A coming of age story involving young love and a mysterious music, coming from a crystal radio left as a memento by an absent father, that leads a young heroine deep into a hidden world.

Capturing the personality of a child in a photo is challenging. A photographer has a limited amount of time to find what it is about that child that will make a great photo. Some kids are shy and some are outgoing.

This best-selling program, featuring Dr. Phelan's entertaining seminar presentation and real-life family vignettes, provides easy-to-learn techniques that will teach you how to manage difficult behaviour, as well as testing and manipulation, without arguing, yelling or spanking.

Two years after the events in "Final Fantasy VII", a disease called Seikon-Shoukougun , or Geostigma , is spreading through the planet. This disease is believed to have been caused by the body fighting off foreign material that invaded the body two years earlier, at the end of "Final Fantasy VII". Guilt-ridden and haunted by his past, ex-SOLDIER Cloud Strife has decided to live a secluded, solitary life away from his friends while maintaining "Strife s Delivery Service", whose headquarters is located in Tifa Lockheart s bar, the Seventh Heaven. Tifa s bar serves as an orphanage for children stricken with Geostigma. Here, Tifa keeps an eye on Barret s six-year-old daughter, Marlene, while Barret searches the planet for an alternative energy source to the Planet s energy, Mako. One day, Cloud receives a phone call from the former Shinra...