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Daily Record
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
BBC 'masterpiece' period drama based on 'greatest book of all time' leaves viewers speechless
The BBC period drama is based on a very famous novel and has a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score. A BBC TV adaptation of a very famous novel has caught the attention of impressed viewers who have branded it a "true masterpiece". There have been several adaptations of Charlotte Brontë's famous 1847 novel Jane Eyre, but one in particular has left fans raving. The BBC's adaptation of Jane Eyre follows the early life of the titular character, who is raised as a poor relation in the household of her aunt, Mrs. Reed. Jane receives cruel treatment from her aunt and cousins and is put into an orphanage. When she is old enough to work, she is hired by the housekeeper of Thornfield Hall, Mrs. Fairfax, to be a governess for young Adèle (Cosima Littlewood) at the country estate. However, when she becomes entangled with the brooding master of Thornfield Hall, Edward Fairfax Rochester, his dark past threatens to destroy their relationship. The four-episode show, which hit screens in 2006, is directed by Susanna White and written by Sandy Welch, the Express reports. Ruth Wilson stars as Jane while Toby Stephens portrays Edward. The cast also features Lorraine Ashbourne, Pam Ferris and Andrew Buchan. The BBC series was a hit with fans and dominated the 2007 award season, scooping up a BAFTA and three Primetime Emmy Awards. Jane Eyre currently holds a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It is based on Charlotte Brontë's book, which is widely considered to be one of the greatest novels of all time. Praising Brontë's work online, one wrote: "Everyone should be a fan of Jane Eyre, it's the greatest novel ever." Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community! Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today. You'll receive daily updates on breaking news as well as the top headlines across Scotland. No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Daily Record team. All you have to do is click here if you're on mobile, select 'Join Community' and you're in! If you're on a desktop, simply scan the QR code above with your phone and click 'Join Community'. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose 'exit group'. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice. Another echoed: "I absolutely love and adore this book. It is now my favorite. If you're thinking of reading it, do not hesitate and read it immediately because you'll regret the moments you spent without reading this masterpiece!" A third chimed in: "This is easily a five star book for me. I love the way that this is written— beautiful, descriptive, and brilliant. "Some may take the descriptive aspect as a weakness, but for me, it was an important addition to the emotional impact of the book. Story wise, I have no words. The angst of the plot will keep you going." Someone else wrote: "Jane Eyre (greatest novel of all time IMO". A fifth penned: "Marvellous!!! It really was and still is one of the best novels of all time." The series has also received similar levels of praise with one viewer declaring: "Okay but the 2006 BBC masterpiece Jane Eyre is…… I don't know, a perfect series." A second said: "I highly recommend Jane Eyre from 2006 or 2007 with Toby Stephens and Ruth Wilson, a true masterpiece." Another impressed fan questioned: "Is there a show out there that can possibly contend with the BBC 's 2006 miniseries masterpiece Jane Eyre? unlikely." Someone else commented: "This is the most beautiful adaptation of Jane Eyre. The acting is all round superb. "Eyre and Rochester are full of soul, something lacking in other depictions that only focus on the seriousness of the characters, often failing to portray their passion." Expressing their admiration for the show, a fifth added: "This show did not need to be this well done. They could've left it to be like other book tv show adaptations… yet they delivered!!! "They understood the assignment and did the extra credit!! They knew it could be the greatest, and aimed higher!! Loved the acting, loved the set, the music, the directing!! Everything is so good!"
BBC News
02-07-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Kirklees Council to sell off more land to plug £47m deficit
A cash-strapped local authority is planning to offload more of its assets in order to bring in £ Council was faced with a £47m black hole in its budget in authority has already raised nearly £1m after four assets were sold off in May and June. Seventeen new assets have been earmarked for disposal including a plot of land at Grasscroft in Almondbury, despite several objections. A council report stated one letter of objection was received from residents of Grasscroft and surrounding areas and included a petition signed by 36 have raised concerns about the site, which is an open space, being used for anything other than grazing land, according to the Local Democracy Reporting sites earmarked for disposal include a plot at Walkley Lane/Sycamore Industrial Estate in Heckmondwike, which was previously featured in a highways scheme as well as Earlsheaton Cemetery Lodge and land in Mirfield, Huddersfield and the current financial year, the council wants to raise £6m from selling off property and land it said was surplus to requirements, with a £4m target set for has already auctioned off of the former Red House Museum at Gomersal, which sold for £650, Grade II listed property, which was once the home of Charlotte Brontë's friend Mary Taylor, was previously a museum which closed in 2016 and a plan to turn it into holiday accommodation and wedding venue fell through. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
New York Post
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
High tides and low blows: July 2025 horoscopes for every sign
Welcome to July star seeds and the oceanic, homebound feels of Cancer season. As we embark on the month ahead, we will do so amid some interesting Astroweather. We spend the majority of the month under the tidal influence of Cancer, a sign that has historically and in the kingdom of memes been reduced to the archetype of a prickly, nostalgia drunk, huffing their ex's hoodie crybaby. Yet, in this quote, often and erroneously attributed to Charlotte Brontë, we are reminded, 'Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.' To be alive is to be present for pain, and our vitality is tied to our ability to feel each notch of the spinning wheel of the human experience and to respond in kind and in cry; at times snot-nosed, flush-faced, raw throat and wet cheeks to that turning. Advertisement 14 We spend much of the month in the womb water of Cancer. Aleksei – Cancer reminds us that everything hurts and nothing lasts, but also that all art and meaning are mined from that beautiful, fatal truth. No one gets out alive, but we can choose to feel every footfall on the road to the end. July plays host to a retrograde parade with Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, and Chiron all slowing their proverbial rolls this month. When the planets slow down, we are asked to follow suit, to turn our attention inward and spend time reflecting and course correcting. 'Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.' Not Charlotte Brontë Advertisement On July 4, Neptune, our planet of hopes and haikus, delusions and drugs, wishes and watercolor painting, goes retrograde in Aries, asking us if we are building or burning our dream. On July 7, Uranus, our planet of inspiration and upheaval, leaves the plodding pastures of Taurus for the amphetamine hot air balloon of Gemini. Gemini rules language and Uranus the bold and the bizarre, setting the stage for all kinds of curious communion and eccentric expression to transpire. 14 This month, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, and Chiron will turn retrograde. oleg525 – On July 10, we welcome the Full Buck Moon in Capricorn, highlighting the polarity between intimate connections (Cancer) and external ascension (Capricorn). Advertisement On July 13, Saturn, our daddy planet of restriction, boundaries, and karmic debts, goes retrograde in Aries, calling us to question whether we have the gumption for the long game in games of destiny, a slow burn versus a brief flare. On July 18, Mercury, our planet of the mind and the mouth, goes retrograde in Leo, heralding a time to quiet the roar and explore whether the way we express ourselves is rooted in performance for the sake of acceptance or authenticity for the sake of ourselves. On July 22nd, the sun leaves the tidal, moon drop birthing pool of Cancer for the stage lights and kitchen of Leo. As the sun rules Leo, this is the Death Star's solar homecoming. Light the fires and gas the tires. Advertisement Two days later, we welcome the new moon in Leo, a potent time to polish what shines. Good luck out there, folks, see you in August. Welcome to the trials and tribulations of Cancer season, Aries. This month, Saturn, our daddy planet of tough luck and formative disappointments, goes retrograde in your sign. You're built for charging ahead and going balls deep and half blind into battle, but this retrograde wants you to cultivate a different kind of power. In the months to come, if you can manage to marry your vigor with vigilance, you are primed to come through this retrograde refined and ready to face any opposition with the knowledge that winning doesn't always mean a loser has to stagger away, and that our misses and fall shorts are always more instructive, and often more invaluable than our triumphs. Ahoy Taurus! The sun in 'the past is an opiate' Cancer highlights your third house of communication and exchange. In honor of this, I encourage you to hurl yourself back to a time before you understood language and your physical body was your only vehicle for voice. Advertisement I don't mean that you should grunt, although if that feels right, grunt on, but rather to see how your feelings settle in your body and how you can shift them through movement; dance, headbanging, leg kicking, slow breathing, pulling at your hair, or baring your teeth, any exercise can be an exorcism. Holy upheaval, Gemini. Uranus, our side-spinning planet of sudden change, lightning, disruption, and inspiration, is setting up shop in your sign this month. Buy the ticket, take the ride, my babies. This transit is a summons to break free and bust loose from the box lest it be broken in and around you. Advertisement The word chaos comes from the Greek khaos, meaning 'that which is vast and empty, void'. I hope you will come to see this transit as that proverbial void, the flattened fertile earth after a furious storm, the spark in the dark, and the beginning of everything again. Happy return of the sun to you, Cancer! The most dramatic of death stars alongside Jupiter, planet of expansion and excess, are shining in your first house of self-concept. Advertisement As the people of the crab maintain a near masochistic love of the past, a kind of erotic nostalgia, I bring you a passage from the banger children's book 'The Velveteen Rabbit,' wherein the horrifyingly named Skin Horse tells the titular character, 'Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.' In honor of your annual, annular solar baptism, I hope you will reflect on how you have been shaped by the circumstances of becoming real to yourself, the singular beauty born of having been loved truly and all the way through. The sun in Cancer throws a light on the murky depths of your twelfth house dreams, delusions, and the unconscious mind, Leo. Advertisement As you prepare for your solar return, I ask you to consider what illusion has control over you. Be it a benchmark of success or a limiting self-belief, you would do well to clean house of the illusory to make way for the transcendent. Close your eyes and loosen the reins. Hello, Virgo! The sun in Cancer shines in your eleventh house of community this month. I recently read Nick Cave's Red Hand Files response to a fan who asked how he prepares for a live show. Cave shared that he closes his eyes and sits in silence for fifteen minutes and calls to mind those he has loved and lost and invokes their particular qualities, both godly and creaturely, that can and will move him across the stage. As Cancer is memory and the eleventh house is community, I hope you'll assemble a similar litany of departed, not to devote yourself to, but to draw raw power from. Ahoy, Libra. The sun in Cancer lights up your tenth house of career and legacy. I recently read an interview with author and fellow Libra David Vann where he shared that he doesn't subscribe to the idea of writer's block. If such a sensation arises, he argues that the person in question is either not a writer or working on the wrong material. If you find yourself feeling blocked, creatively or psychically, maybe it's time to choose a different road. The sun and Jupiter in Cancer amplify your ninth house of philosophy and expansion, Scorpio, the domain of the open road and the open mind. With the retrograde parade afoot this month, there's never been a better time to explore the edges of your own emotional potential. When you lead with what calls you rather than follow the fear that controls you, you are limitless. Bear in mind that you are uniquely designed for depth and experience, positive or negative, is a prerequisite for growth. Leave the cave for what you crave, my babies, it only gets better from here. Happy summer, Sagittarius! The sun in Cancer kicks down the basement door of your eighth house of intimacy, resources, sex, death, and secrets. Cancer is about the past, a history we are said to carry in the muscle matter of the hips, where we bear children and other literal weight, and the weight of all that's come before. The hips are home to the sacral chakra, the energetic power center where sexuality and creativity are born. In many traditions, tight hips are a sign of obstructed sacral energy, congestion that can cause emotional instability and dulled pleasure. No matter who you are, I'm willing to bet there's something you've carried for too long. In addition to concentrated hip stretches, your recipe for renewal includes screaming out someone else's secret and the long howl of your own. Welcome to Cancer season, Capricorn! Saturn, your ruling planet, goes retrograde this month, heralding a time to turn your prodigious strategic energy inward and reassess the balance of your dreams and karmic debts. I recently watched a Willie Nelson documentary wherein the Red Headed Stranger himself shared that he wrote most of the best of his prolific songbook while driving alone down back roads. If you find yourself feeling uninspired, challenged by change, or worse yet, stuck in the stagnancy of a repeating chorus, may I suggest you let the sound of an ignition turning over set you right. Happy Cancer season, Aquarius. The sun and Jupiter in the cardinal waters of Cancer highlight your body and the rituals and routines that shape and support it. We often talk of healing in a broad emotional sense and at the expense of the physical. Yet, as neuroscientist Candace Pert reminds us, they are inextricable. 'Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely, physicians treat the body with no regard to the mind or the emotions. But the body and mind are not separate, and we cannot treat one without the other.' As Cancer is the sign of maternal care, I hope you'll fiercely defend your right to the rituals that put your mind and body in sacred conversation. Happy summer sweat, Pisces. The sun and Jupiter amplify creative drive and carnal desire for you this month. In 'The Crying Book,' author Heather Christle writes, 'Some mornings I awake with an enormous sensation inside of me and cannot identify whether the urge is to cry or write a poem or f–k someone. All at once. My body has cross-indexed the impulse.' I hope you live this month in this glorious intersection and choose, again and again, all over one. Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reports on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, pop culture, and personal experience. To book a reading, visit her website.
BBC News
07-06-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Rathfriland literary festival celebrates Brontës' County Down link
The first literary festival to take place in Rathfriland will this weekend celebrate the Brontë family's connection to the Literary Festival will feature authors, poets and music in celebration of the area's contributions to the arts, both past and famous sisters' father was a clergyman in nearby Drumballyroney before moving to Ada Elliot told BBC News NI he had been "perhaps been overlooked" in the telling of the Brontë family story. 'Rathfriland is a spectacular area' Patrick Brontë was born Patrick Brunty in County Down in March 1777 - St Patrick's Day - explaining his first name - and changed his surname when he moved to England. Three of his children - Charlotte, Emily and Anne - became authors, with Charlotte writing Jane Eyre and Emily writing Wuthering Heights - both gothic romances set in the north of England, with strong psychological components. Anne Brontë wrote The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which explores themes of social duty and the place of women in the Victorian world."Although the girls are not part of Rathfriland he (Patrick) has a long history here," festival organiser Ada Elliott told BBC Radio Ulster's Your Place and Mine programme."Rathfriland is a spectacular area. We're very proud of it and that's why we want to celebrate it." Historians through the years have speculated on whether Patrick Brontë's Irish roots might have influenced his daughter's writing, and even whether they might have had Irish Down celebrates those links. A signposted Brontë interpretive trail runs for 10 miles from an interpretive centre around Rathfriland and its surrounds, allowing visitors to drive through the area and imagine how the windswept Mournes might have influenced the father of girls whose writing was mystical, passionate and local historian Uel Wright believes more could be done."If you come here you cannot fail to see Brontë signs everywhere," he told BBC News NI. "Roads, homeland, library, nursery, steakhouse - all Brontë." Despite the wave of enthusiasm that led to those celebrations in the 1990s, the stone cottage where Patrick Brontë was born lies in ruins. Mr Wright hopes public money can be used to restore it and celebrate the link."My theory is that unless there's another generation of interest and enthusiasm to keep the Irish Brontë heritage alive, we're going to lose something very important." Mr Wright's great-great-uncle William Wright wrote a book on the Brontës in Wright believes those stories were based in oral history, in which his ancestor had a great interest, and he will examine them at a talk on Sunday in the schoolhouse where Patrick Brontë taught. "The whole Irish part of the story has gone out of fashion but with the upsurge of interest in oral history let's say - this is what we have in Ireland," he says."Let's celebrate it."Later on Sunday author Martina Devlin, who has written a novel based on Charlotte Brontë's honeymoon in County Offaly, will speak in the original church where he preached before leaving Ireland in 1802. The Rath Literary Festival started on Friday and runs until Sunday. It has been organised by the Rathfriland Women's Institute, Rathfriland Regeneration and Hilltown Community Association and will feature music and a one-woman show imagining the sisters in the modern day, by Pauline will read poems inspired by 19th Century women caught up in the criminal justice and mental health systems, and a walking tour will tell the stories of famous Rathfriland residents down the years. The festival was the brainchild of Margot Groves, who said: "We are delighted to be bringing such a wealth of talent to Rathfriland. There is something for everyone to enjoy no matter which genre they prefer." And did the Brontë sisters have Irish accents?"It wouldn't be surprising," says Uel Wright."Patrick never made great pretensions with his accent."I don't suppose we'll ever really know but it wouldn't be beyond the realms of possibility."
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India.com
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- India.com
6 Books You Should Read If You Are A Classics Lover - From Metamorphosis To Time Machine
photoDetails english 2906657 Updated:May 26, 2025, 10:03 PM IST Metamorphosis 1 / 7 Franz Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' shows the transformation of a man into an insect and how his family deals with it. The book explores themes of isolation and new identity. Jane Eyre 2 / 7 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Brontë is a story of a woman who seeks love, independence, and a sense of belonging. To Kill A Mockingbird 3 / 7 Harper Lee's 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is the story of a young girl with adventures sprinkled in. Wuthering Heights 4 / 7 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Brontë is a story about love and anger, and is set in the windy countryside. Time Machine 5 / 7 HG Wells' 'The Time Machine' is an adventure tale where a scientist travels to the future, discovering new worlds and exploring the consequences of his travel. Diary Of A Young Girl 6 / 7 'The Diary of a Young Girl' by Anne Frank is a saga of a Jewish girl's life while hiding from the Nazis. Credits 7 / 7 (Photo Credit: Representational Image/ Freepik)
