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North and South

1975 • 8.2 • Drama • 55m

GB • English

Director: Rodney Bennett

Serialisation of the novel by Mrs Gaskell.

Cast

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Rosalind Shanks

as Margaret Hale

Rosalie Crutchley

as Mrs. Thornton

Patrick Stewart

as John Thornton

Tim Pigott-Smith

as Frederick Hale

Ian Marter

as Henry Lennox

Episodes

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Part One

E1 55m

Margaret Hale is pleased to be leaving London to live with her parents in Hampshire. She is unaware that an even longer journey is in store.

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Part Two

E2 55m

Mr Hale has left the Church and is working as a tutor in a Northern industrial town. Times are hard for the mill workers and a strike is threatened.

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Part Three

E3 55m

John Thornton has succeeded in breaking the strike. Margaret Hale has put her reputation at risk by protecting him from a mob of angry workers. John Thornton has misinterpreted her action and, with the grudging approval of his mother, he has resolved to marry her.

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Part Four

E4 55m

Margaret Hale has rejected John Thornton 's proposal of marriage and has defended herself against Mrs Thornton 's accusations.