BBC Two · Ended

The Love School

Drama · 1975

Last aired: S1 E6, The Artisan · 1975-02-26

London, 1851. The industrial revolution is changing the city. Bringing vivid colour in amongst the dirty red bricks and smoke stacks of the noisy bustling streets are four young, thrill-seeking, outspoken and audaciously creative mavericks John Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and Thomas Woolner otherwise known as the Brotherhood. Championed by the most famous art critic of the time, John Ruskin, the artists are also joined by sassy, sexy model Lizzie Siddal. Their quest for artistic immortality takes them into some of the most debauched, darkest and liveliest corners of the city.

Cast

Kenneth Colley Edward Burne-Jones

Peter Egan John Everett Millais

Ben Kingsley Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Patricia Quinn Lizzie Siddal

Season 1

E1 The Brotherhood 1975-01-22 · 75 min 1848 - year of revolutions throughout Europe, reflected in London by a group of young painters. A secret society is formed to storm that citadel of the art Establishment, the Royal Academy. The society is known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

E2 An Impeccable Elopement 1975-01-29 · 70 min The most famous art critic of his time, John Ruskin , his pretty young wife Effie, and the dazzling young painter Millais away from the gossip-mongers for the season, but at very close quarters in Scotland.

E3 Seeking the Bubbles 1975-02-05 · 75 min The two lifelong painter friends -Hunt with his 'Light of the World' and Millais with his ' Bubbles ' - were the most successful of their generation. Were they successful in their own eyes?

E4 Remember Me 1975-02-12 · 75 min The series returns to 1857 and takes up the story of Rossetti. Enter Morris, Burne-Jones and Swinburne for a glorious summer romp. Enter a second ' dream woman' to rival poor, neglected Lizzie.

E5 Beata Beatrix 1975-02-19 · 75 min Rossetti acquires a follower in William Morris but his life is troubled by drug addiction, and he becomes increasingly isolated.

E6 The Artisan 1975-02-26 · 75 min William Morris longs to share his ' joy in work' with others and turns to Socialism. Who better then to pronounce a last farewell to the PRB.

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