Clips
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Video Clip: Sarah and Joe Astell spend Christmas Eve together. Duration: 00:46 Episode 3
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Video Clip: Lydia furiously rejects Sarah's efforts to get her back to school. Duration: 00:53 Episode 2
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Video Clip: Sarah and Carne come to blows. Duration: 00:59 Episode 1
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Video: Behind the scenes of South Riding Duration: 06:15
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Video: The costumes of South Riding Duration: 02:44
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Winifred Holtby, author of South Riding
Picture credit: Winifred Holtby Collection, Hull History Centre
Find out more about Winifred Holtby at the Hull History Centre
Winifred Holtby (1898 – 1935) was born in Rudstone, Yorkshire. At eighteen, she attended Oxford University’s Somerville College where she met life-long friend Vera Brittain. Holtby worked as a journalist and novelist. South Riding was her last novel, completed just before her death from kidney disease in 1935. The novel was published posthumously to wide acclaim, winning the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1936. -
South Riding and one of the greatest literary heroines
Kate Harwood, controller of series for BBC Drama, on why Winifred Holtby's classic novel was perfect for a screen adaptation: "When I read it as a girl I connected with the love story but now, just as much, it is the themes that move me."
Read and comment on Kate's post on the BBC TV blog
Commercial Availability
South Riding is available in the following formats:
