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- Desperate Romantics combines Drama storytelling.
- The principal cast includes Aidan Turner, Rafe Spall, Tom Hollander.
TV series
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.
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Cast
Aidan TurnerDante Gabriel Rossetti
Rafe SpallWilliam Holman Hunt
Tom HollanderJohn Ruskin
Samuel BarnettJohn Millais
Sam CraneFred Walters
Zoë TapperEffie Ruskin/ Effie Millais
Amy MansonLizzie Siddal
Jennie JacquesAnnie Miller
Josie FarmiloeCharlotte Siddal
Maimie McCoyMargaret
Phil DavisMr. Stone
Mark HeapCharles Dickens
Rebecca DaviesFanny Cornforth
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Best suited to viewers looking for Drama. The available catalogue spans 1 season.
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Themes and topics
london, englandminiseriesperiod dramacostume drama19th centurypre-raphaelite
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