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The trove will be auctioned as part of what Sotheby’s is billing as the sale of a legendary “lost library” of British literature treasures.

LINE of Duty star Adrian Dunbar is appearing in a new TV drama about Emily Bronte. The actor will be in Haworth, which was home to the legendary literary siblings, this month to film for the programme. He played Superintendent Ted Hastings in the hit BBC police series Line of Duty, which gripped the nation as it reached a highly-anticipated finale on May 2. Mr Dunbar starred in all six series of Jed Mercurio’s drama, as the commanding officer of anti-police corruption unit AC-12. The Bronte film will focus on the early life of Emily, author of Wuthering Heights. Emily is played ...

LINE of Duty star Adrian Dunbar is heading for Haworth to film a new TV drama about Emily Bronte. The actor, who plays Superintendent Ted Hastings in the hit BBC police series which reaches its highly anticipated final episode tomorrow, will join the cast in a biopic about the Wuthering Heights author. Emma Mackey, star of Netflix comedy drama Sex Education, will play Emily in the film about her early life. The cast also includes Gemma Jones, star of the Harry Potter and Bridget Jones films, and the drama, believed to be called Emily, is the directorial debut of actress Frances O’Conn...

WHEN smoking was banned in Britain’s first “fresh air pub” the regulars didn’t take it well. It was 1971 and smokers were used to lighting up where they liked - but this Dales landlord stuck to his guns. The Yorkshire pub was highlighted by current affairs TV programme Nationwide in one of several quirky films released from BBC archives. The broadcaster has opened up its collection of unusual news footage, much of it shot locally over several decades. Other newly released films include how the Brontes spent their childhood in Haworth’s Parsonage, the Flying Scotsman in action, a...

THE social and natural history that shaped the Brontes is explored in a new book tracing the literary family’s footsteps. Walking the Invisible, by Michael Stewart, follows the Bronte Stones trail, taking a series of walks through landscapes and buildings familiar to the family and investigating the geographical and social features that shaped their lives and writing. The book also compares the times they lived in with the present. Michael, who lives in Thornton, where Emily, Charlotte, Anne and Branwell Bronte were born, became captivated by the Brontes after he left school and disco...