Wide Sargasso Sea
Dramatisation of Jean Rhys's novel set in 19th-century Jamaica. The tragic story of the first Mrs Rochester from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre centres on an arranged marriage between a white Creole heiress and a brooding Englishman, who fall in love only to be torn apart by rumours, paranoia and a cultural divide.
- genus: Drama, Romance
- Studio: BBC Cymru Wales, Kudos
- keyword: mother, based on novel or book, england, insanity, jamaica, imprisonment, prequel, wedding, madness, attic
- cast: Rafe Spall, Rebecca Hall, Nina Sosanya, Victoria Hamilton, Lorraine Burroughs, Alex Robertson