The lives of two women and the men they love intertwine fatefully across boundaries of race, class, and culture in this superior two-part drama. Naomie Harris plays a prim young Jamaican who emigrates to postwar London, where her dreams of a better life in the “mother country” collide with rude realities. Ruth Wilson portrays her English landlady, a pig farmer’s daughter who is more warmhearted than most of the neighbors. Fine performances bring Andrea Levy’s award-winning novel to life. Sundays, April 18 and 25, at 9 p.m., PBS; check local listings
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