In Search of the Brontës in BBC Prime

BBC Prime gives a new chance to see In search of the Brontës. Today, June 27, the first episode, A Wish for Wings, is broadcasted at 22:00 (BST). The second one, Gone Like Dreams, will be aired next week (on July, 4).

In Search of the Brontës is a BBC dramatised documentary that was first broadcasted in 2003.

In Search of the Brontes is a story of alcoholism and illness, of thwarted passion and unrequited love, of a 19th century quest for fame, and a story of literature.
The Bronte sisters have been described as 'emotionally fragile young women, beset by family tragedy, channelling their pent-up emotions into some of the most passionate and enduring novels of the 19th century'. All of this is accurate, but there is more...
Based on letters written by the three sisters and new research by historian Juliet Barker, this two-part series shatters the myths that have surrounded the sisters since their untimely deaths more than 150 years ago.
This series features extensive dramatic reconstruction, which was filmed partly on location in the sisters' home and on the Yorkshire Moors where they spent their time, and reveals the fascinating truth about the sisters, their wayward brother, Branwell, and their much-maligned father, Reverend Patrick Bronte.
In episode one: A Wish For Wings, the early lives of Charlotte (Victoria Hamilton), Anne (Alexandra Milman) and Emily (Elizabeth Hurran) and their siblings, are revealed. The children are fierce free spirits, whose tender, if eccentric father, Patrick (Patrick Malahide), believes passionately in their education. After his wife's death, Patrick sends his four eldest daughters to boarding school. The conditions were harsh and hastened the deaths of the elder two. (Charlotte used the boarding school as a model for Lowood in Jane Eyre) Eventually Charlotte and Emily return home to Howarth in Yorkshire, where they and their brother, Branwell (Jonathan McGuinness), and baby sister, Anne, are given freedom to roam the moors and read widely. Their creativity begins to blossom and they invent tales of Byronic passion in imaginary kingdoms called Angria and Gondal. It is here that Cathy and Heathcliff begin life.
(Details on the second episode will be published next week)
Production Details
Narrator: Patricia Routledge. Producer/Director: Samira Osman. Executive Producer: Kim Thomas. A BBC/Opus Arte co-production. (Information source)

EDIT:
Our Australian readers are invaded by Brontë rendez-vous in TV, as we posted recently. Today, in Showtime Greats, at 03:20 PM, 1992's Wuthering Heights is scheduled.

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