Desperate Romantics

...on sale from today, coincide with a revival of interest in the Pre-Raphaelite movement, brought about partly by series such as Desperate Romantics on the BBC and by a big exhibition on the artist John William Waterhouse at the Royal Academy...

In this article: Henry Holiday, Royal Academy of Arts, John William Waterhouse, William Morris, and Edward Burne-Jones

...created after a major exhibition on artist John William Waterhouse at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and programmes such as the BBC's Desperate Romantics revived an interest in the Pre-Raphaelite movement, The crippling strikes have...

In this article: Royal Mail, Henry Holiday, Royal Academy of Arts, John William Waterhouse, and Post Office

...in Rye, East Sussex. The issue follows a revival of interest in Pre-Raphaelite artists, brought about partly by series such as the BBC's Desperate Romantics and a major exhibition earlier this year on artist John William Waterhouse at the...

In this article: Henry Holiday, St Michael's Church, Royal Academy of Arts, John William Waterhouse, William Morris, and Edward Burne-Jones

...a national newspaper and an independent production company, the radio drama features Samuel Barnett, star of History Boys and Desperate Romantics, as the Bletchley Park code breaker. He died in 1954, eating an apple laced with cyanide...

In this article: Alan Turing, The Independent, Suicide, Roger Alton, Ian McEwan, Samuel Barnett, Stephen Fry, and Richard Dawkins

...collaboration of its kind between a national newspaper and an independent production company, the radio drama featuring History Boys and Desperate Romantics star Samuel Barnett portrays the Bletchley Park code breaker on his death in 1954...

In this article: The Independent, Alan Turing, Samuel Barnett, Suicide, History Boys, Roger Alton, Ian McEwan, Stephen Fry, and Richard Dawkins

...a whore while his fiancee Lizzie is laid out on the opiates that he got her hooked on. Bad man! If this sounds less like a review of Desperate Romantics and more like a celeb gossip column, you're not wrong. When the series started last...

In this article: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Potato, Laudanum, Gingerbread man, Sweet potato, and Derivative

...when Hunt found her although, in real life, she was apparently nothing more scandalous than a barmaid. One of the reasons why Desperate Romantics works so well is because even though it's billed as a drama, it's very funny - far,...

In this article: William Holman Hunt, Goat, Hashish, The Scapegoat, and Rafe Spall

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In this article: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, John Millais, Nick Ross, Oxford, Runts, and Aidan Turner

...telly. And as it didn't kill you, it has, presumably, made you stronger. This week's first delivery of telly knackers came with Desperate Romantics, the BBC's big new drama series, commissioned out of the box of period drama marked "Hey,...

In this article: Midsomer, Gabriel Dante Rossetti, John Everett Millais, John Nettles, William Holman Hunt, Plastic surgery, and Aidan Turner

Navigation - link to other main sections from here The Truth About Crime; Coast; Desperate Romantics; Imagine In the second part of his unofficial audit of crime in Oxford, Nick Ross focuses on property crime. At least 90 per cent of...

In this article: Cornwall, Aidan Turner, Waste, BBC Two, Second World War, and Nicholas Crane