Hard Times (Scripted, English)
Genres: Drama
Status: Ended
Premiered: 1994-04-29
Ended: 1994-05-20
Network: BBC One
Country: GB
Airs on: Friday
Runtime: 25 minutes
This extraordinary production captures the soot and smoke that blot out the sun in dank, industry-choked Coketown. Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion.