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Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

72 The Bronte Sisters, Haworth, Yorkshire

Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

Fat Belly Films

News, Neil Oliver, History, Comment

4.7 β€’ 1K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Neil strides across the beguilingly beautiful, wild Yorkshire moors to meet three sisters whose brilliance would shape and change the world of literature.

Tough, strong-willed survivors, the Bronte sisters laid bare the crippling social conventions of the day with perfect prose. Their own lives were edged with hardship and tragedy, but their imaginations, stubborn genius and dazzling creativity lit up the world. The episode is from the Bronte parsonage in Haworth, west Yorkshire.

 

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0:34.0

mix of history, comment and current affairs. On my site there's a whole

0:39.2

archive of films to watch there's one on the history of pandemics. There's another about a recent discovery of a new variation on the human species,

0:48.0

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1:07.9

Okay that's the news about my Patreon site. here comes this week's podcast.

1:13.4

Kue the music. We had a foot in both worlds and we had the wit and the talent to chronicle it and to create unforgettable fiction.

1:34.0

In this episode we come face to face with genius,

1:38.0

born of hardship and of rock.

1:41.0

And the Wild Yorkshire Moors three young sisters are forging their talent.

1:47.0

Perfect prose laying bare the social conventions of the day, the harsh realities of the local life,

1:58.0

and the desolate bare beauty of the moors surrounding them.

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