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15 Minute Drama: Charlotte Bronte - Shirley

Lesley Sharp

Joanne Froggatt

Jemima Rooper

Sean Murray

Christine Kavanagh

Tracey Neale

Rachel Joyce

Charlotte Bronte

15 Minute Drama: Charlotte Bronte - Shirley: Episode 2: Caroline Goes Visiting

Shirley

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Episode 2: Caroline Goes Visiting

Charlotte Bronte - Shirley

Caroline Goes Visiting

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Caroline Helstone is in love with Robert Moore, but will he ever be hers.

1811, Yorkshire. Caroline Helstone is in love with Robert Moore, but will he ever be hers?  Stars Lesley Sharp and Sean Murray.

Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, dramatises Chrlotte Bronte's tale of romantic entanglements and turbulent times in the Yorkshire of 1811.

Caroline Helstone, is in love with Robert Moore but knows he will never be hers. Her sadness lifts a little when she receives an invitation to meet Shirley Keelder, the new owner of the manor house at Fieldhead.

Directed by Tracey Neale.

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Charlotte Bronte's tale of romantic entanglements set against turbulent times in Yorkshire

Rachel Joyce dramatises Charlotte Bronte's passionate tale of love, longing and loss set against a backdrop of turbulence and unrest in the Yorkshire of 1811

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