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The Romantics

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on BBC Two England

INew series 1/3. Peter Ackroyd summons the ghosts of visionary writers who changed the way we see the world in this drama documentary.
Liberty. Between 1760 and 1830 English Romantic poets were at the forefront of a movement inspired by the French Revolution that spawned some of the greatest works of literature in the English language.
Producer/Director Sam Hobkinson Romantic revolutionaries: page 20

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Ackroyd
Director:
Sam Hobkinson
William Wordsworth:
David Threlfall
William Blake:
Dudley Sutton
Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
Martin Savage
Jean Jacques Rousseau:
David Tennant
Denis Diderot:
Jason Watkins
John Clare:
Rafe Spall
Jacques Pierre Brissot:
Richard Henders
Percy Bysshe Shelley:
Blake Ritson
Mary Shelley:
Cara Horgan
Lord Byron:
Joseph Millson
John Keats:
Nicholas Shaw
Ancient mariner:
Trevor Martin
Thomas Paine:
Stuart Milligan
Source: Radio Times

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