Women Ahead Of Their Time: The Brilliant Bronte Sisters

Actress and writer Sheila Hancock has long been fascinated by the life and works of the Bronte sisters. In this programme, she searches for an answer to a puzzling question: "How did three spinsters who spent most of their lives in a remote parsonage on the edge of the moors come to write books so shocking, erotic, profoundly moving and quite wonderful?"

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