"Actor: Alice Sykes"

• Cradle to Grave Series 1 | DVD | (26/10/2015) from £9.55   |  Saving you £10.44 (109.32%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It's 1974 and fifteen-year-old Danny is our guide through the ups and downs of life with the Baker family. Dad Fred, known to all and sundry as ˜Spud', is a proud south London docker with a penchant for rackets, fiddles and schemes, hopefully ˜nice and tasty' ones. Wife Bet loves him deeply but longs for the family to go ˜straight', and do daft things like pay taxes and put money in the electricity meter instead of always trying to scam it. With eldest daughter Sharon's wedding looming, the docks facing closure and a switch to the dreaded ˜containerisation' putting thousands of dockers out of work, times are challenging. So too are Danny's attempts to get closer to the opposite sex. Full of humour, warmth and drama, Cradle To Grave is based on actual events and characters.