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Book of the Week: Charlotte Bronte: A Life

Hattie Morahan

Claire Harman

Julian Wilkinson

Elizabeth Allard

Book of the Week: Charlotte Bronte: A Life: Episode 2: Roe Head School

Charlotte Bronte: A Life

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Episode 2: Roe Head School

Roe Head School

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Charlotte Bronte: A Life, Roe Head School

A decision to write to the poet laureate Robert Southey yields a surprising response.

Hattie Morahan reads Claire Harman's biography. Today, school life and corresponding with the poet laureate, Robert Southey.

Hattie Morahan reads Claire Harman's new and intimate portrait of Charlotte Bronte. The biography of one of our greatest novelists looks ahead to the two hundredth anniversary of her birth in April 2016. Today, a decision to write to the poet laureate, Robert Southey, yields a surprising response. Meanwhile, the fourteen year old Charlotte begins life at Roe Head School as a pupil before returning as an intransigent teacher. 

Abridged by Julian Wilkinson.
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.

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Claire Harman's intimate biography of one of Britain's greatest novelists

Claire Harman's intimate biography of one of Britain's greatest novelists. Read by Hattie Morahan

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