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Synopsis:
Peter Ackroyd examines how Romantic writers reacted to the Industrial Revolution, exploring the birth of the modern notion of nature. Poet John Clare found freedom in the open countryside, but the shift in cultural attitudes that came with the Enclosure Acts drove him insane, while nature and scientific progress inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - a prophetic novel which is still relevant today
Cast:
David Threlfall as William Wordsworth, Dudley Sutton as William Blake, Martin Savage as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Rafe Spall as John Clare, Joseph Millson as Lord Byron, Cara Horgan as Mary Shelley
Credits:
Chris Granlund - Producer, Peter Ackroyd - Scriptwriter, Kim Thomas - Executive-Producer, Sam Hobkinson - Producer, Director
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