The Professor

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Charlotte Bronte - The Professor: 6. Frances

Charlotte Bronte - The Professor

6. Frances

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Charlotte Bronte - The Professor, 6. Frances

William Crimsworth has a talented new pupil who tries to warn him about the school.

William Crimsworth has a talented new pupil who tries to warn him about the school.  Stars Paul Venables and Niamh Cusack.

William becomes intrigued by the shy and gentle Frances, but someone is watching him from the shadows.

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

Dramatised by Rachel Joyce.

William Crimsworth ...... Paul Venables
Zoraide Reuter ...... Niamh Cusack 
Frances ...... Claire Price

Director: Tracey Neale

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 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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