Being the Brontës

To mark the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë's birth, Martha Kearney, novelist Helen Oyeyemi and journalist Lucy Mangan travel to Haworth Parsonage, the home of Charlotte and her sisters Emily and Anne, to discover the inspiration behind their classic novels `Jane Eyre', `Wuthering Heights' and `Agnes Grey'. The trio learn how the Brontës combined literary genius with real life experience to create some of the best-loved novels in the English language.

Category

Documentary / Art / Special

Original air date

2016-03-26