North & South (2004)

Directed by

Brian Percival

Genre

drama television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 4 episodes

Rated

15

Rating

8.1 of 10 from 203 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman from southern England moves with her family to a northern industrial town in the 1850s. She struggles to fit in with the local customs and falls into a tense relationship with a proud cotton mill owner.

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What happens

North & South is a British television historical drama programme, produced by the BBC and originally broadcast in four episodes on BBC One in November and December 2004. The serial is based on the 1855 Victorian novel North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell and takes place in the years surrounding the Great Exhibition of 1851. It follows the story of Margaret Hale (Daniela Denby-Ashe), a young woman from southern England who has to move to the North after her father decides to leave the clergy. The family struggles to adjust itself to the industrial town's customs, especially after meeting the Thorntons, a proud family of cotton mill owners who at first seem to despise their social inferiors. The story explores the issues of class and gender, as Margaret's sympathy for the town mill workers clashes with her growing attraction to John Thornton (Richard Armitage). The novel was adapted for television by Sandy Welch and directed by Brian Percival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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