Jane Eyre

Originally broadcast in 2006, this screen adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's novel charts the journey of its title character as she becomes an orphan and battles to forge a brighter future.

Across four episodes, the programme takes viewers on a magnificent expedition through this timeless tale, starring Ruth Wilson in the titular role alongside Toby Stephens as Edward Rochester.

The two gradually fall for one another despite his peculiar conduct and the enigmatic noises she hears echoing through the residence.

It said: "A wonderful adaptation of this classic. The casting is excellent; Ruth makes a delightful and intriguing Jane, and Toby Stephens is an utterly fantastic Rochester.

"This is a compelling series; each episode leaves you anxious to see the next. The set designers and costume designers have excelled themselves, and the lighting in particular is superb." (Angie Quinn)

   

This retelling of Jane Eyre has appeared recently in the newsround and is already available:

The Chateau on Sunset

by Natasha Lester

ISBN 9780593726556

Published by Ballantine Books

June 02, 2026

A sheltered young woman living at the Chateau Marmont falls under the spell of a scandalous, secretive man as all of Hollywood’s glamour swirls around her—a stunning feminist reimagining of Jane Eyre from the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Seamstress.

“A clever, compelling midcentury Gothic . . . a can’t-miss read for the madwoman in all of us.”—Layne Fargo, bestselling author of The Favorites.

In 1957, newly orphaned Aria Jones is sent to live with her aunt, a fading star who hides away in Hollywood’s infamous Chateau Marmont. There, two aspiring actresses, Calliope and Flitter, take the grieving Aria under their wing.

But the Marmont isn’t meant for small girls with big hearts, and Aria’s first few nights reveal an insidious secret that continues to haunt her as she grows up in the hotel’s halls, where the bright lights of Hollywood cast even darker shadows. If Aria can just stay invisible and invite no trouble as she saves money, then she can leave the Marmont and live life on her own terms—alone but free.

Her carefully laid plans fall apart when the hotel is bought by Theo Winchester, a reclusive rock star turned unexpected caretaker of his daughter, Adele, and unlike any man Aria has met before. To earn the last bit of money she needs to escape, Aria becomes Adele’s tutor, which brings Aria closer to Theo and ignites a passion she never expected.

Suddenly, Aria finds herself wondering if she still wants to remain invisible—and if inviting trouble is a risk she’s willing to take to pursue what she truly desires.

   

She famously sang ‘it’s me, I’m Cathy’ in her hit song Wuthering Heights.

But passers-by could be forgiven for wondering which one was the real Kate Bush as hundreds of fans wearing red gathered on Edinburgh’s Meadows to recreate the dance from the 1978 chart-topper. 

The annual gathering is part of the global Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever, with this the fifth time it has taken place in Edinburgh.

One previous participant has been quoted as saying: ‘It takes a certain kind of person to want to frolic in a field dressed like Kate Bush – a bunch of eccentric people celebrating a wonderfully British icon.’ (Emma Newlands)

The one that made you want to become an author: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (Elise Dumpleton)

   

After reading This Dark Night and having a lot of trouble putting it down between chapters, my biggest disappointment had nothing to do with how Deborah Lutz uniquely captured the essence of Emily. It was the tragic brevity of her literary subject’s life (1818-1848). (...)

What brings this unusual and ultimately tragic family into focus for 21st-century readers is Lutz’s consummate skill at weaving seemingly mundane details of everyday life into the fabric of their creative existence. Alongside the practical necessities of acquiring a Victorian education, maintaining a place in society, dealing with youthful emotions and romances, encountering illness and death, and keeping a motherless household running, Charlotte, Emily, Anne and their only brother, Branwell, lived energetically in imaginary worlds they created and wrote about together --- not only during childhood, but also well into young adulthood. 

Much of their imaginative fervor, especially Emily’s, was stirred by the climate and rugged landscape of the Yorkshire moors around their hometown of Haworth. Their intellectually liberal father, Patrick, was a local clergyman who largely home-schooled the children. He would outlive not only his wife, but all six of his offspring. 

By drawing so deeply on the real and imaginary worlds that the Brontës simultaneously inhabited, Lutz adds meaning and relevance to Emily’s poetry, which spans her entire short life: her seeming obsession with death, graves, memorials, ghosts and the supernatural; her passion for the beauty of the night sky and contemplation of the infinite; her keen eye for the subtlest changes in the flora and fauna of the moors on which she wandered at every opportunity; and her passion for the welfare of animals. She also captures Emily’s sometimes-painful transition into adolescence and adulthood, times in which she could be both an acute observer and vocal critic of human nature and relationships (platonic and erotic).

An especially endearing and often poignant element of This Dark Night is the generous amount of correspondence that Lutz includes between Emily and her sisters, friends and relatives, which not only serves to highlight the intimacy of their connections, but also brings the larger 19th-century world into their quite isolated rural environment. An important part of that wider world was the innovation of affordable rail travel that arrived in Yorkshire in time for Emily and Charlotte to journey overseas to Belgium for additional schooling, an experience that deeply influenced both their writing. (Pauline Finch)