NORTH & SOUTH

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• Release Year: 2005
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Elizabeth's Gaskell's passionate tale of love across theisocial divide.; ; As the daughter of a middle-class parson, Margaret Hale has enjoyed a privileged upbringing in rural southern England. But when her father uproots the family, she is forced to adapt to a new life in Milton - a northern mill town in the throes of the industrial revolution.; ; Margaret is shocked by her new surroundings. Appalled by the dirt, noise and gruffness of the people of Milton, she saves her greatest contempt for the mill-owners. When John Thornton, charismatic proprietor of Marlborough Mills, becomes a 'pupil' of her father, she makes her distaste for this vulgar and uneducated new class abundantly clear.; ; Over time, Margaret's attitude towards the mill workers begins to change and she joins their workplace struggles against poverty and disease. But will she ever change her view of the employers - in particular, one who has secretly become her admirer?
• Cast: Daniela Denby-Ashe, Richard Armitage, Tim Pigott-Smith, Emma Ferguson, Travis Oliver, Jane Booker, Lesley Manville, John Light, Pauline Quirke, David Fleeshman, William Houston, Tom Charnock, Frank Lauder, Anna Maxwell Martin, Sinéad Cusack, Jane Cameron, Ian McHale, Brendan Coyle, Jo Joyner, David Crellin, Shaun Hennessey, Martin Walsh, Tim Faraday, Jonathan Magnanti, Caroline Pegg, Kay Lyon, John Finn, Carl McCrystal, Simon Cassidy, Elianne Byrne, Emma Ashton, Rae Kelly, Holly Scourfield, Rupert Evans, Martin Henshell, Sam Chapman, Philip Ralph, Brian Protheroe, Will Tacey, Lucy Brown, Richard Evans, Karl Haynes, Katie Wimpenny, Marc Finn, Angus Kennedy, Russell Mabey, Ben Crompton, Neil Alan Taylor, Matthew Storey, Spencer Wild, Isabel Pollen, George Potts, Brian Percival
• Director: Brian Percival
• Runtime: 3:53
• Company: BBC Warner
• Media Format: Series