Charlotte Brontë in Babylon

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Samantha Power

Sara Bahadori

Claire Brown

Ben Lamb

Robert Pickavance

Charlotte Riches

Susan Roberts

Charlotte Cory

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Drama charting five momentous visits Charlotte Brontë made to London as a published author

4 Extra Debut. After being accused of deceit, Charlotte and Anne Brontë rush down to London to put the matter right. Starring Samantha Power.

After being accused of deceit by the publisher of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë and her sister Anne, leave Haworth and rush down to London to put the matter right.

The first of five momentous visits Charlotte Brontë made to the capital in the course of her short-lived but meteoric literary career. 

These trips chart the story of her relationship with her young publisher (and his watchful, horrified Mama), Charlotte's wide-eyed enthusiasm at visiting the place of her childhood dreams at long last and being lionized as a writer by readers. 

We see her difficult relationships with other authors and critics - and then the gradual disillusionment setting in as this intense, painfully honest and gauche Yorkshire novelist gradually acquires self knowledge and a clear-eyed view of the cruel and shallow fashionable literary world she had long aspired to be part of.
 
Written by Charlotte Cory.  
 
Charlotte ...... Samantha Power
Anne ...... Sara Bahadori
Mrs Smith ...... Claire Brown
George ..... Ben Lamb
Patrick/Shop Assistant ...... Robert Pickavance

Director:  Charlotte Riches

Producer: Susan Roberts

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2016.

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