Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Novels set in Yorkshire

Shirley, A Tale is a social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë, first published in 1849. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell).

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  1. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Anne Bronte's story of the mysterious Helen Graham who seeks a new independent life as an artist after escaping her abusive, alcoholic husband.

    30 September 2021

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    Featuring: Alexandra Lewis, Marianne Thormählen, John Bowen

     
  2. Wuthering Heights

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Bronte's story of Heathcliff and Cathy, of love, hatred, revenge and self-destruction across two generations in a remote moorland home.

    28 September 2017

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    Featuring: Karen O'Brien, John Bowen, Alexandra Lewis