The Professor

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Charlotte Bronte - The Professor: 1. Trade

Charlotte Bronte - The Professor

1. Trade

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Charlotte Bronte - The Professor, 1. Trade

William Crimsworth sets outs in the world, desperate to love and be loved.

William Crimsworth sets out in the world, desperately wanting to love and be loved in return. Stars Paul Venables.

Orphaned William Crimsworth is a young man with nothing. 

As he sets out to make his way in the world he doesn't want to be indebted to anyone. But running parallel with this need for self-control is the desperate need to love - and be loved in return. 

The least-known of Charlotte Bronte's novels: a subtle, ambiguous and unsettling love story, first published  in 1857.  

Dramatised in ten parts by Rachel Joyce. 

William Crimsworth ...... Paul Venables 
Edward Crimsworth ...... Jonathan Keeble 
Lord Tynedale ...... Gerard McDermott  
Mrs Crimsworth ...... Ruth Sillers

Director: Tracey Neale

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2005.

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Dramatisation of Charlotte Bronte's novel about a professor at an all-girl's school

Dramatisation of Charlotte Bronte's novel, published posthumously, about a man who comes to work as a professor at an all-girl's school. With Paul Venables.

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