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From: The Northern Echo
Date: 20060123
Author:STEVE PRATT

The Romantics (BBC2)

The Virgin Queen (BBC1)

HERE'S the latest incarnation of Doctor Who speaking the words of French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau. And David Threlfall, who plays drunk and dishevelled Frank Gallagher in Shameless, reciting the work of British poet William Wordsworth.

The sight and sound of that pair pointed out that The Romantics, Peter Ackroyd's series about the creative movement in the 18th and 19th century, was never going to be some dry and dusty lecture. "I'm going to take you on a journey into the human imagination, " he promised as blood red clouds filled the ...

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