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Weekend Review: Love and death among the hills

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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20041129
Author:Tom Adair

The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance, C4, Sat,

North and South, BBC1, Sun,

Britain's Worst Home, Five, Sun.

Pah! to Dickens. Eat your heart out, Little Nell. That Elizabeth Gaskell could write a death scene to make your socks melt. As **North and South approaches its climax (due next week - you have been warned, so invest in a heavy consignment of Kleenex while you still can), the death toll mounted to five in a row in episode three. For uninitiated viewers, Gaskell's 19th century tale portrays love-on- the-blink twinned with "trouble at mill" in industrial England where, in the ...

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