Question of the week: the awards heaped on The King's Speech this weekend makes me wonder, could you suggest a favourite London-ish historical drama? "It is pure drama, and should absolutely not be taken as a serious history of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, but Desperate Romantics comes immediately to mind.
This 2009 BBC mini-series turned everything up to the max, as the personal and professional lives of the four members of the brotherhood spin increasingly out of control. The casting's fantastic, too - Aidan Turner as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Tom Hollander as John Ruskin particularly. From a London perspective, there's some lovely location work, and this is really an intrinsicly London story - the energy and opportunities and hardships of the Victorian metropolis are part of the warp and weft, and the creative relationships it made possible are its driving force. The dvd is in the LUP Library."- Miss Alice
* Photo by Jim Linwood, used under Creative Commons, with thanks, showing Dante Gabriel Rossetti's La Castagnetta, now in the Guildhall Art Museum .
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