Wide Sargasso Sea (TV)

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Wide Sargasso Sea
Format Costume drama
Run time 90 minutes
Starring Rafe Spall
Rebecca Hall
Nina Sosanya
Victoria Hamilton
Channel BBC Four
Production company Kudos Film & Television
Airdates October 9, 2006
No. of episodes 1
IMDb profile

Wide Sargasso Sea is a British television adaptation of Jean Rhys's 1966 novel of the same name.

Produced by Kudos Film & Television for BBC Wales, the one-off 90-minute drama was first broadcast on digital television channel BBC Four on October 9, 2006. It was repeated on BBC One on Sunday October 22, 2006, the week following the conclusion of BBC One's adaptation of Jane Eyre, to which Wide Sargasso Sea is a prequel.

The adaptation was scripted by Scottish playwright Stephen Greenhorn, produced by Elwen Rowlands and directed by Brendan Masher. It starred Rebecca Hall as Antoinette Cosway and Rafe Spall starred as Rochester.

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For a full length summary see: plot summary of Wide Sargasso Sea.

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