You can really feel the wild moors

Folk Radio interviews Rachel Unthank about The Unthanks' Lines.

Again, obviously, Emily Brontë is very well known worldwide. But for myself and for us as a band we didn’t know about her poetry, so for ourselves, that was a really nice journey to go on to try and convey the passion and the landscape that is in her writing, and try and make it into music.
You mention the landscape, and your upbringing was informed by your surroundings – growing up so close to the sea, you’ve always sung sea shanties for example. Do you share an affinity with Emily in the sense that a lot of her writing is so elemental? That is something that we definitely recognised when we started reading her poetry, how elemental it is and how that reminded us of some of the folk songs that we sing and have grown up with, those that really put you in a sense of place. You can really feel the wild moors and it gives a real strong sense of place, which is kind of what we love about it. So there was definitely something that we recognized in her writing, something that we are drawn towards ourselves, and her passion, strength and depth of feeling.
Some of her poems, ‘Remembrance’ for example, really reminded me of those songs like ‘I Am Stretched On Your Grave’, those traditional songs where someone is lying on the grave mourning the loss of a loved one but with real passion. The landscape takes a part of that. It really reminded me of those old folk songs and it was the only song that I actually contributed the tune to. I changed a traditional tune I’d heard because I felt that there was a relationship there. Plus there’s a strong theme, of death and mourning and loss. Again very familiar to the stuff we’ve grown up with so it’s definitely not too intense for us.
It’s not something you shy away from. Going back to ties with place, Adrian recorded this on Emily’s restored piano and spent time in the Parsonage separately. He said that he slept in the room that supposedly inspired Brontë’s famous window scene in Wuthering Heights. Do you feel these factors would have fed into the music as well? Yeah I think actually being there, y’know it’s a very particular type of atmosphere and the Parsonage looks out onto the graveyard and then quite quickly you can get up out onto the moors and into the wild. For us, that felt really powerful and I can’t imagine what it must have been like for them to live there then because it would’ve been much more of an industrial town, but then to have access to this wild landscape with amazing views! I think landscape does permeate and feed into music and definitely art, music and writing, and your surroundings can’t help but shape you a little bit. (David Weir)

Express wonders what to expect from Victoria season 3, which will feature the Great Exhibition.

Notable figures who attend the exhibition were Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll and Charlotte Brontë, (Molli Mitchell)

Lauren Regucci tells USA Today how she became an FBI special agent and she's also asked:

• What is your favorite book? Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (Susannah Hutcheson)

We Heart looks at the North York Moors area.

Little Wickets, Masham, North Yorkshire
Another beauty on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Little Wickets is a one bedroom bolthole in the tiny village of Thorton Watlass (used as a backdrop for telly’s All Creatures Great & Small, Heartbeat, and Wuthering Heights) that epitomises Yorkshire’s quintessence of not-all-is-as-it-seems. (James Davidson)

Marie Claire (Spain) recommends 'the best romantic novels'.

Cumbres borrascosas, de Emily Brontë
Otro clásico que no podía faltar en nuestra selección... déjate llevar por la épica historia de Catherine y Heathcliff, ambientada en Yorkshire, que reflexiona sobre las nociones de destino, pasión y venganza. (Translation)

Syfy Wire looks at After from a fan fiction perspective.

Jean Rhys turned the romance of Jane Eyre on its head by giving a voice back to the madwoman in the attic with Wide Sargasso Sea. (Kayleigh Donaldson)

W Magazine has spoken to actress/singer Naomi Scott.

Perhaps campiest of all, [Burberry's designer, Riccardo] Tisci took the Burberry aesthetic and stretched it to an extreme. “It’s this consistent vision, it’s just a heightened version of it,” she said. Same goes for her camp icon Kate Bush (“correct me if we don’t think she’s camp,” Scott added as a disclaimer), whose “Wuthering Heights” video appears earnest in its intentions, yet outrageous, exaggerated in its look and sound. (Katherine Cusumano)

A fan of Kate Bush also speaks of her in The News.

‘When Wuthering Heights came out in 1978 people said it was madness, that she sounded like a cat and no one would want to listen to her. At first radio stations refused to play her. When they finally did, it went crazy. To this day no one comes close to her, she is incomparable.’ (Elise Brewerton)

Les Echos (France) reviews Bernard Herrmann's Wuthering Heights opera currently on stage at Nancy:

Pour l'occasion, l'Irlandaise Orpha Phelan et son équipe ont imaginé un décor unique, très sobre : un parquet géant ondulé qui rappelle les courbes du paysage comme l'instabilité des rapports entre les personnages. Costumes du XIXe siècle, lisibilité parfaite du plateau, élégants jeux de lumière, utilisation habile de la vidéo : le spectacle s'accorde parfaitement à la musique.
La distribution est à l'avenant, marquée par une Cathy incarnée avec conviction par la soprano Layla Claire, voix longue et colorée. Le baryton John Chest, timbre de bronze, campe un Heathcliff ombrageux et viril, toujours prêt à en découdre pour sauver son honneur et son amour. Jacques Lacombe dirige avec précision et subtilité une partition bien mise en valeur par l'Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy. Espérons que cette première scénique française aura une suite. (Philippe Venturini) (Translation)