The mini series regularly attracted audiences over 10 million and are still showing in the UK on Drama and the Yesterday Channel.

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A collection of 23 dramas based on the novels of Catherine Cookson: 'The Mallen Secret', 'The Mallen Curse', 'The Mallen Girls', 'The Mallen Streak', 'The Fifteen Streets', 'The Wingless Bird', 'The Round Tower', 'The Black Velvet Gown', 'The Black Candle', 'The Rag Nymph', 'The Moth', 'The Girl', 'The Tide of Life', 'The Glass Virgin', 'The Gambling Man', 'The Man Who Cried', 'The Cinder Path', 'The Dwelling Place', 'The Colour Blind', 'The Tilly Trotter', 'The Storyteller', 'The Secret' and 'Dinner of Herbs'.

If you're in education and training, environment and conservation, arts and culture, as well as general charitable purposes, your organisation could be eligible for a grant from the Catherine Cookson Charitable Trust.

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Cookson wrote almost 100 books, which sold more than 123 million copies, her novels being translated into at least 20 languages. With 104 titles written in her own name or two other pen names, she is one of the most prolific British novelists.For the last few years of her life she was bed-ridden, [24] and she gave her final TV interview to North East Tonight, the regional ITV Tyne Tees news programme, from her sickbed. The illegitimate child of an alcoholic named Kate Fawcett, she grew up thinking her unmarried mother was her sister, as she was brought up by her grandparents, Rose and John McMullen. The first film to be made, The Fifteen Streets [17] starring Sean Bean and Owen Teale, was nominated for an Emmy award in 1990. This special DVD collection includes 19 TV adaptations for the small screen featuring all-star casts who convey all the drama and emotion of each magnificent tale. Products labelled '*item fulfilled by Exertis on behalf of hmv' will be supplied to you directly by Exertis via their approved couriers.