BRITAIN'S NOVEL LANDSCAPES

Mariella Frostrup visits some of the UK’s most stunning landscapes to discover how they inspired some of the best loved female authors to create incredible works of fiction from Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights to Rebecca and Pride and Prejudice.

Mariella visits the areas that the Brontës, Jane Austen, Beatrix Potter and Daphne Du Maurier both loved and set their novels and stories in as she uncovers why these books that are loved all around the world, were not just the product of the authors that wrote them, but the times and places they lived in.

Episode One – Jane Austen’s Hampshire
Episode Two – Daphne Du Maurier’s Cornwall
Episode Three – Beatrix Potter’s Lake District
Episode Four – The Bronte’s Yorkshire