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This commodity is near the British tv set series. For the unrelated American television miniseries, encounter North and Southward (miniseries). For other uses, encounter Due north and South.

North & Southward
British DVD cover
Genre	Historical drama
Based on	North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Screenplay by	Sandy Welch
Directed by	Brian Percival
Starring	Daniela Denby-Ashe Richard Armitage Sinéad Cusack Jo Joyner
Composer	Martin Phipps
Country of origin	U.k.
Original language	English
No. of episodes	iv
Product
Producer	Kate Bartlett
Running time	235 min. (four parts)
Release
Original network	BBC One
Original release	14 November (2004-xi-fourteen) – 5 December 2004 (2004-12-05)

Due north & South is a British goggle box historical drama programme, produced by the BBC and originally broadcast in four episodes on BBC One in November and December 2004. It follows the story of Margaret Hale (Daniela Denby-Ashe), a young adult female from southern England who has to move to the North afterwards her father decides to leave the clergy. The family struggles to arrange itself to the industrial town'due south customs, especially subsequently meeting the Thorntons, a proud family of cotton wool mill owners who seem to despise their social inferiors. The story explores the issues of class and gender, as Margaret's sympathy for the town factory workers clashes with her growing attraction to John Thornton (Richard Armitage).

The serial is based on the 1855 Victorian novel North and S by Elizabeth Gaskell and takes identify in the years surrounding the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was adapted for television by Sandy Welch and directed by Brian Percival.

Plot [edit]

Margaret Hale (Daniela Denby-Ashe) and her parents Maria (Lesley Manville) and Richard (Tim Pigott-Smith) live in the idyllic town in Helstone in Hampshire. At the nuptials of her cousin, Edith, Margaret is approached by Edith's new brother-in-law, Henry Lennox (John Light). Lennox visits Helstone a while later and proposes wedlock to Margaret; she refuses him.

Margaret'south father, a clergyman, has long harbored doubts nearly the doctrines of the Church of England and resigns his position rather than attest to orthodox beliefs every bit his bishop requires. To avoid gossip, the family motility to the (fictional) industrial town of Milton, Darkshire, in the north of England. Cheers to his friend, Mr. Bell (Brian Protheroe), Mr. Hale is able to find a firm. Giving lessons as a private tutor provides him a minor income. One of his pupils is local mill-owner John Thornton (Richard Armitage), who gets off to a bad starting time with Margaret when she witnesses him beating a worker whom he has defenseless smoking in the mill, which endangers all the workers. Gradually, Margaret gets used to Thornton, but his mother Hannah (Sinéad Cusack) and sister Fanny (Jo Joyner) disapprove of her, believing her haughty and alien to the community of the North. In the concurrently, Margaret attempts to do charitable piece of work among the mill workers and comes into contact with Nicholas Higgins (Brendan Coyle) and his daughter, Bessy (Anna Maxwell Martin), who suffers from byssinosis from exposure to the cotton wool fibres in the mills. When Bessy became ill at Hamper's Mill, her begetter moved her to Marlborough Mills, Thornton'due south factory, because the working environs is better in that location. In a meeting with fellow mill owners, Thornton says he had a bicycle for ventilation installed in all of the rooms of his factory in club to maintain a healthier workforce, despite the fact that it costs a great deal of money. The other industrialists had refused to install a bike because of the expense.

Margaret's female parent is falling ill. Mrs. Hale desires to meet her son, Frederick (Rupert Evans), before she dies. Frederick, a naval officeholder, was involved in a mutiny and he cannot return to England without risking his life. All the same, without telling her father, Margaret writes to her blood brother in Cádiz, Spain, to tell him that their mother is dying. Margaret calls on the Thorntons to borrow a h2o mattress for her mother and is trapped there while the manufacturing plant workers anarchism during a strike. When the angry mob threatens John's safety as he confronts them afterward Margaret's goading, Margaret defends him from the rioters and is injured past a thrown stone.

Margaret recovers and returns abode, telling nobody about what had happened at the Manufacturing plant, mainly to protect the health of her female parent. When Thornton proposes to her the next solar day, she scorns him, thinking he believes himself superior because of the deviation in their financial circumstances. He denies this and tells her that he is in love with her, but she insists that her actions were not personal.

Meanwhile, Bessy Higgins dies and Thornton stops coming for lessons from Mr. Unhurt. As a distraction for Mrs. Unhurt and for herself, Margaret visits the Corking Exhibition with her Aunt Shaw (Jane Booker), her cousin Edith and Edith's hubby. Margaret meets Thornton at the exhibition, where he is discussing the mechanism with a group of gentlemen, all of whom are listening with great respect and admiration for his simple good sense. Margaret is embarrassed to meet Thornton so soon later on her rejection but defends him when Henry Lennox, who is as well attending the exhibition, tries to belittle him for existence in trade. As Margaret observes them together, Henry'due south sophistication and reliance on fashionable wit and sarcasm compares unfavourably with Thornton'south honesty.

When Margaret returns dwelling, her mother has taken a turn for the worse. Margaret's brother arrives just in time to see his female parent, and she dies shortly after. While Frederick is in the firm, Thornton comes to visit his friend Mr. Unhurt, simply he cannot be allowed in, in case he sees Fred. Thornton interprets this as Margaret refusing to encounter him. The family's servant, Miss Dixon (Pauline Quirke), bumps into Leonards, a former member of Frederick's coiffure in Milton town, who offers to divide the reward coin for Frederick'south capture with her. Dixon refuses, informing the Hales; information technology is decided that Frederick must leave at once, before he is discovered and arrested. He and Margaret are seen together at the railway station past Thornton, who mistakenly assumes that Frederick is Margaret'south lover. Leonards spies on him and Margaret at the station, and in the cursory scuffle Fred pushes him down the stairs. It is later revealed that he died in hospital. Margaret denies to the police that she was at the station, in order to protect Fred, but Thornton, who is the magistrate and saw her there, is morally tested, simply ultimately calls off the impending inquiry for the sake of Margaret.

Thornton gives employment to Higgins who seeks work to intendance for Boucher'southward children after his expiry, and primary and hand get along surprisingly well, despite their differences. They come upward with a programme to feed the workers cheaply in a communal kitchen, and Thornton comes to a greater understanding with his workers as they share ideas. However, losses faced during the strike accept put Thornton'south business organisation in trouble, and he is forced to close the factory.

Margaret'south father visits Mr. Bell in Oxford, and dies there. With no family unit to keep her in Milton, Margaret leaves the north to stay with her aunt in London. Afterward a few months living with the Shaws, Margaret visits Helstone with Mr. Bong, and meets the new vicar and his wife. Margaret is disappointed to detect Helstone much inverse, and realises that she has romanticised and idealised her childhood habitation, and starts to truly recognise the claim of life in Milton.

As Margaret's godfather, Mr. Bell makes over his significant fortune to her when he finds out that he has a concluding disease and chooses to motility to Argentina for the ameliorate climate. Margaret hence becomes the possessor of Marlborough Mills and John Thornton'southward landlord. Margaret visits Milton with Henry Lennox, who is now acting every bit her financial advisor; she speaks with Mrs. Thornton at Malborough Mills, expressing her realisation of Mr. Thornton's truthful graphic symbol. Meanwhile, Thornton, having discovered the truth most Fred being Margaret'southward brother from Higgins, goes southward to see Margaret's home town of Helstone. At a railway station halfway between Milton and Helstone, Margaret and Thornton cross paths on their respective render journeys. She proposes a business deal by which the manufactory can exist reopened; afterward this the two share a kiss. Margaret bids farewell to Henry, and gets on the train "domicile" to Milton with Thornton.

Cast [edit]

• Daniela Denby-Ashe – Margaret Hale
• Richard Armitage – John Thornton
• Tim Pigott-Smith – Mr Richard Unhurt
• Lesley Manville – Mrs Maria Hale
• Sinéad Cusack – Mrs Hannah Thornton
• Jo Joyner – Fanny Thornton
• Brendan Coyle – Mr Nicholas Higgins
• Anna Maxwell Martin – Bessy Higgins
• Kay Lyon – Mary Higgins
• Pauline Quirke – Dixon
• Rupert Evans – Frederick Unhurt
• Brian Protheroe – Mr. Bell
• John Light – Henry Lennox
• Emma Ferguson – Edith Shaw Lennox
• Jane Booker – Aunt Shaw
• Will Houston – John Boucher
• Reddish Alto - Beky

Production [edit]

Origins [edit]

Sandy Welch started adapting Elizabeth Gaskell'south 1855 North and South in 2001, making a few changes to emphasise the industrial landscape of the story. Welch's story, for example, begins and ends with the primary character Margaret Unhurt travelling by railroad train, which is non the starting and ending signal of the novel (although Gaskell describes the Hales travelling from the South to the North by train). Welch also made the main characters visit the Great Exhibition of 1851. These are changes Welch believed Gaskell would have done "if she'd had the time", since Gaskell had complained of being under force per unit area to complete the novel by her editor Charles Dickens.^[1] In the summer of 2003 Kate Bartlett was brought to the projection every bit a producer and a 10-calendar week menstruum of pre-production started at the start of February.

Casting [edit]

Daniela Denby-Ashe had non originally auditioned for the part of Margaret Hale just for that of Fanny Thornton,^[2] and was not certain she would be participating on the project, but the producers had been looking for the right Margaret for a long time and Denby-Ashe's "directness, energy and charm" as well as the chemistry she had with would-be co-star Richard Armitage proved decisive. Armitage himself had been the start actor to read for the part of John Thornton and fifty-fifty though his functioning had impressed producer Kate Bartlett and casting director Jill Trevellick, they still had to run across many other possible Thorntons.^[three] Iii weeks later on casting had begun, Trevellick decided to restate the first auditions, realising that Armitage was "perfect".^{[1] [4]}

Filming [edit]

Filming took place from the end of April 2004 until July 2004.^[two] Gaskell's fictional boondocks of Milton, Darkshire, was loosely based on Manchester, but the producers decided to shoot many of the town scenes in Edinburgh, which maintains more of its visual and architectural heritage from the industrial Victorian era.^[1] Keighley in W Yorkshire became one of the main locations, the cotton mill'southward exteriors were filmed at Dalton Mill. The scenes within the mill were shot at Helmshore Textile Museum in Rossendale and Queen Street Mill on the outskirts of Burnley, Lancashire. London was another main location, all the interior scenes were shot at the Ealing Studios in west London and the Great Exhibition scene was shot at Alexandra Palace in North London.^[5] Other locations were Selkirk, a town in the Scottish Borders,^[6] Burnley in Lancashire, and the Bluebell Railway in Sussex, where the concluding and the beginning scenes were shot.^[2] Boosted railway sequences were filmed in Yorkshire, using carriages provided past the Vintage Carriages Trust

Equally a costume drama, North & South required substantial piece of work from the art department. In 2005 the serial's product designer Simon Elliot received a British Academy Telly Accolade nomination for Best Production Design.^[4]

Music [edit]

Martin Phipps composed the score for Due north & South. The short piano tune is played throughout the whole series in different rhythms. The music is peculiarly loud and clear whenever in that location is a turning indicate in the relationship between Margaret and Thornton.^{[2] [5]}

Reception [edit]

Edinburgh's William Street in May 2004 adjusted for North & Due south

As the BBC had low expectations for the series, it was not well publicised and went about unnoticed by critics. Audiences, nevertheless, were more receptive; hours subsequently the first episode aired in November 2004, the message lath of the programme's website crashed because of the number of visitors the site was receiving, forcing host bbc.co.uk to shut information technology down.^[7] This sudden interest on the serial was attributed to Richard Armitage, a relatively unknown role player, whose portrayal of the emotionally restrained John Thornton drew parallels with Colin Firth'southward portrayal of Fitzwilliam Darcy on the BBC's 1995 mini-series Pride and Prejudice, and the reception he later received.^{[viii] [9]} Armitage himself claims that the serial was a success because of the "industrial landscape and the attention [that the series gives] to the working classes and the way they develop".^[10] The reaction to the series was a surprise to the BBC, who and then decided to release the DVD on eleven April 2005.^{[nine] [eleven]}

Northward & S was voted "Best Drama" in the BBC drama website's annual poll in 2004.^[12] Richard Armitage was voted "Most Desirable Drama Star" and "Best Actor",^{[xiii] [14]} Daniela Denby-Ashe was voted "Best Actress" and three different scenes were voted every bit the yr'due south "Favourite Moments", with the concluding scene winning the number ane spot.^{[15] [xvi]}

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c} Shannon, Sarah (ten November 2004). "Dear in a cold climate". The Independent. Retrieved on 23 March 2008
2. ^ ^{a b c d} Bartlett, Kate; Percival, Brian and Welch, Sandy. Audio commentary. North and South. Dir. Percival, Brian. Perf. Daniela Denby-Ashe, and Richard Armitage. 2004. DVD. BBC DVD, 2005.
3. ^ "Interview with Richard Armitage". Special characteristic. Due north and South. Dir. Percival, Brian. Perf. Daniela Denby-Ashe, and Richard Armitage. 2004. DVD. BBC DVD, 2005.
4. ^ ^{a b} Staff author (June 2007). "A Northern Tale". The DVD Collection.
5. ^ ^{a b} "Backstage "North and South" - Soundtrack and Location data". BBC.co.uk. Archived from the original on 23 June 2006. Retrieved 23 March 2008.
6. ^ BBC Press Office (30 April 2004). "BBC ONE explores love beyond the social split in an accommodation of Elizabeth Gaskell'southward Northward and South". Press release. Retrieved on 26 April 2008.
7. ^ Kinnes, Sally (30 Apr 2006). "Move over Darcey". The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 23 March 2007. Retrieved 23 March 2008.
8. ^ Hall, Jane (23 December 2004). "Britain's newest middle-throb". Western Mail. Archived from the original on 31 January 2008. Retrieved 23 March 2008.
9. ^ ^{a b} Wark, Penny (13 Apr 2005). "In a swoon over me? Surely not". Times Online. Archived from the original on 12 March 2007. Retrieved 23 March 2008.
10. ^ "The Pat Marsh Show" - Interview with Richard Armitage (13 April 2005). BBC Radio Kent.
11. ^ Ashworth, Anne (23 December 2004). "A dashing object of desire". The Times. Archived from the original on 12 March 2007. Retrieved 23 March 2008.
12. ^ "Best Drama". BBC Drama - Best of 2004. BBC.co.united kingdom. Retrieved 9 May 2008.
13. ^ "Most Desirable Drama Star". BBC Drama - Best of 2004. BBC.co.uk. Retrieved 9 May 2008.
14. ^ "Best Histrion". BBC Drama - Best of 2004. BBC.co.uk. Retrieved nine May 2008.
15. ^ "All-time Actress". BBC Drama - All-time of 2004. BBC.co.uk. Retrieved 9 May 2008.
16. ^ "Favourite Moment". BBC Drama - Best of 2004. BBC.co.uk. Retrieved nine May 2008.

External links [edit]

• N & South at BBC Online

• North & South at BBC Online
• Northward & South at IMDb
• VCT filming: Due north & South
• N and South 2004 (unofficial) site

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