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Desperate Romantics

Six-part drama series set in and among the alleys, galleries and flesh-houses of 19th-century industrial London, following the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a vagabond group of English painters, poets and critics.

2009 |1 Season  | 60m |  Drama

Cast

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Aidan Turner

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Rafe Spall

William Holman Hunt

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Tom Hollander

John Ruskin

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Samuel Barnett

John Millais

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Sam Crane

Fred Walters

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Zoë Tapper

Effie Ruskin/ Effie Millais

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Amy Manson

Lizzie Siddal

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Jennie Jacques

Annie Miller

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Maimie McCoy

Margaret

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Phil Davis

Mr. Stone

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Mark Heap

Charles Dickens

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Rebecca Davies

Fanny Cornforth

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Peter Sandys-Clarke

Edward Burne-Jones

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Poppy Lee Friar

Rose La Touche

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Creator

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Status

Ended

Languages

English

Network

BBC Two