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New UK drama from Happy Valley writer

Sally Wainwright has penned a new drama for the BBC on the Bronte sisters.

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UK writer Sally Wainwright (Happy Valley, Last Tango In Halifax) has penned a new drama for the BBC, To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters.

The drama, which she will also direct, is an ‘original perspective on the extraordinary Bronte sisters.’

It revolves around the three sisters’ increasingly difficult relationship with their brother Branwell, who in the last three years of his life – following a tragically misguided love affair – sank into alcoholism, drug addiction and appalling behaviour. Life at home with the Brontes at this time was not a comfortable place to be, and yet from this environment sprang their remarkable literary output.

The project explores the siblings’ relationship not only with one another, but with their father, a clever and unusual man, who grew up in an impoverished home in rural Ireland, who educated himself, and who was happy to encourage his children – irrespective of their sex – to become passionate about literature and its possibilities.

Wainwright, who most recently won a BAFTA Television Award for writing Happy Valley, said: “I am thrilled beyond measure that I’ve been asked by the BBC to bring to life these three fascinating, talented, ingenious Yorkshire women.”

Charlotte Moore, Controller of BBC One, adds: “The Bronte sisters have always been enigmatic, but Sally Wainwright’s brilliantly authentic new BBC One drama brings the women behind some of our greatest literary masterpieces to life. It’s an extraordinary tale of family tragedy and their passion and determination, against the odds, to have their genius recognized in a male 19th-century world.”

It will film in Yorkshire with casting yet to be announced.

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