
Set against the backdrop of the coming industrial revolution in eighteenth century Yorkshire, the drama follows David Hartley as he assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a revolutionary criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history.
David Hartley

Grace

Bill Hartley

Isaac Hartley
James Broadbent

Abe Oldfield

Bathsheeba Oldfield

Rita
Susie

Joe the Pickpocket
Joseph Broadbent

Mand

Tom Hartley
Rex Arkwright, the Clothier

Gwen Hartley
Darya Hartley
Ella Hartley
Billy Vardy