Episode 1

A fantastic mix of injustice, romance, passion and danger wrapped up in a glorious love story.

An orphan, our bookish heroine Jane Eyre, is introduced as she attempts to survive life with her bullying, brutal cousins and her aunt, Mrs Reed. And she is sent to Mr Brocklehurt's punishing and grim Lowood School, but it brings friendship.

Charlotte Bronte's most beloved novel, first published in 1847.

Omnibus of the first five of ten parts dramatised by Rachel Joyce.

Jane ....... Amanda Hale
Rochester ....... Tom Burke
Mrs Fairfax ....... Susan Jameson
Young Jane ....... Nell Venables
John Reed ....... Tom Taylor
Mrs Reed ....... Tracy Wiles
Bessie ....... Katie Redford,
Brocklehurst ....... Gerard McDermott
Helen Burns ....... Rebecca Hamilton
Grace Poole ....... Debra Baker
Blanche Ingram ....... Evie Killip
Mason ....... Ewan Bailey

Director: Tracey Neale

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2016.