Watch This Is England

A 15-year-old on an Essex estate dances alone until her mother brings a man home.

Visit the iconic Big Ben clock tower in London, one of the most famous landmarks in the world

Shakespeare's birthplace, his grave in Holy Trinity, and the Royal Shakespeare Company on the riverbank.

Alfred the Great's capital: the longest Gothic nave in Europe and the Round Table hanging in the Great Hall.

Pip, Magwitch on the marshes and Miss Havisham's rotting cake.

Dickens' favourite child, from a blacking factory to a writer's desk; Micawber and Uriah Heep.

A miner's son in Nottinghamshire, his mother and the women he cannot love; Lawrence's autobiography.

A 15-year-old with Asperger's investigates a dead poodle and finds out about his mother.