The Professor

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Charlotte Bronte - The Professor: 4. Zoraide

Charlotte Bronte - The Professor

4. Zoraide

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Charlotte Bronte - The Professor, 4. Zoraide

William takes on a new teaching role, but is warned about Mademoiselle Reuter.

William takes on a new teaching role, but is warned about Mademoiselle Reuter. Stars Paul Venables and Niamh Cusack.

William feels he’s found his natural place. A gifted teacher, he’s happy and content. 

He finds further work in the neighbouring school for girls - in the very same place where he has heard a laughing voice, an enchanting ringing laugh...

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

Dramatised by Rachel Joyce.

William Crimsworth ...... Paul Venables
Pelet ...... Roger May
Zoraide Reuter ...... Niamh Cusack

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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