In Search of the Brontes | 1: A Wish for Wings

Based on Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The lives of the literary sisters are told in a new two-part dramatisation narrated by Patricia Routledge.

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  • Type: Adaptation
  • Channel: BBC One
  • Duration: 59'07''
  • Broadcast date: 2003
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In Search of the Brontes | 1: A Wish for Wings

In Search of the Brontes | 1: A Wish for Wings

2003 | 59'07''

The lives of the literary sisters are told in a new two-part dramatisation narrated by Patricia Routledge.

In Search of the Brontes | 2: Gone Like Dreams

In Search of the Brontes | 2: Gone Like Dreams

2003 | 59'10''

Tragedy comes to Haworth parsonage in the conclusion to a two-part biography of the 19th-century literary sisters.

In Search of the Brontes | 1: A Wish for Wings

In Search of the Brontes | 1: A Wish for Wings

2003 | 59'07''

The lives of the literary sisters are told in a new two-part dramatisation narrated by Patricia Routledge.

In Search of the Brontes | 2: Gone Like Dreams

In Search of the Brontes | 2: Gone Like Dreams

2003 | 59'10''

Tragedy comes to Haworth parsonage in the conclusion to a two-part biography of the 19th-century literary sisters.

In Search of the Brontes | 1: A Wish for Wings

In Search of the Brontes | 1: A Wish for Wings

2003 | 59'07''

The lives of the literary sisters are told in a new two-part dramatisation narrated by Patricia Routledge.

In Search of the Brontes | 2: Gone Like Dreams

In Search of the Brontes | 2: Gone Like Dreams

2003 | 59'10''

Tragedy comes to Haworth parsonage in the conclusion to a two-part biography of the 19th-century literary sisters.
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