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North and South

North and South

  • A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

  • Elizabeth Gaskell

  • Full Cast (Read by)

RELEASED 27/10/2022

A brand new full-cast dramatisation of Elizabeth Gaskell's best-selling novel.

When Margaret Hale is forced to leave her home in the tranquil, rural South of England for the industrial Northern town of Milton, she finds herself in a very different country run by men, like mill owner John Thornton, with very different beliefs to her own.

Margaret is sickened by the working conditions she witnesses and, sympathetic to the poor workers, clashes with their boss, Thornton. However, when the tensions spill over into a workers' strike and Thornton is put at risk, Margaret must face the complexity of this divide between rich and poor, as well as her conflicted feelings towards John Thornton.

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