North Amp South Complete Bbc Series Dvd

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North South Complete BBC Series DVDActors Daniela Denby Ashe Richard Armitage Sinead Cusack Lesley Manville Tim Pigott Smith Directors Brian Percival Format PAL Language English Subtitles English Region Region 2 This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats Aspect Ratio 169 1771 Number of discs 2 Classification 12 Studio 2 Entertain Video DVD Release Date 11 April 2005 Run Time 233 minutes North South is a splendid fourhour adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskells 19th century novel about an unlikely & somewhat starcrossed love between a middleclass young woman from Englands cultivated south & an intemperate if misunderstood industrialist in a northern city Daniela Denby Ashe plays Margaret Hale forthright & strongwilled daughter of a former vicar Tim Pigott Smith who relocates his family from a pastoral village outside London to unforgiving largely illiterate Milton a factory town where John Thornton Richard Armitage & his mother Sinead Cusack survivors of poverty rule their cotton mill with an iron hand Thornton befriends Margarets father but incurs her wrath for his severity with his workers What she doesnt notice is Thorntons core sense of responsibility for his employees welfare On the other hand he misinterprets some of Margarets own actions & intentions Equally stubborn the two drag out their obvious attraction over many painful months & events North Souths two leads are both very good though Armitages brooding penetrating performance may very well be considered a classic one day There are other wonders in the cast Cusack & Pigott Smith are superb & Brendan Coyle is memorable as a firebrand union organizer who ultimately becomes an ally to a softening Thornton The miniseries script by Sandy Welch is a persuasive mix of historical context & character study Brian Percivals direction is full of moments that linger in the imagination such as the winterdream look of a busy cotton mill with thousands of snowy fibers floating in the air Tom Keogh Amazoncom DVD Description North & South is a powerful adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskells feisty & passionate novel set across the social divides in the changing world of Victorian industrial society Margaret Hale is one of literatures most original heroines a southerner from a country vicarage newly settled in the industrial northern town of Milton In the shock of her move she misjudges charismatic cotton millowner John Thornton whose strength of purpose & passion are a match for her own pride & wilfulness When the workers of Milton call a strike Margaret takes their side & the two are brought into deeper conflict As events spiral out of control Margaret to her surprise begins to fall in love with Thornton DVD Extras Specially recorded interview with Richard Armitage Commentary on Episodes 1 4 with Kate Bartlett Brian Percival & Sandy Welch Deleted Scenes Production Notes