The Love School (broadcast in the U.S. as The Brotherhood) is a BBC television drama series originally broadcast in 1975 about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, written by John Hale, Ray Lawler, Robin Chapman and John Prebble. It was directed by Piers Haggard, John Glenister and Robert Knights. It was shown during January and February 1975. It includes six episodes, each episode is 75 minutes in length.

The drama was a significant influence on the subsequent 2009 series Desperate Romantics. It was also the basis of the historical novel of the same name by Hale. Until a few years ago, it appeared never to have been released on DVD anywhere in the world despite fans calling for such a release on IMDb and elsewhere. However, on 8 April 2019, the DVD of all six episodes was released thanks to the efforts of the team at Simply Media TV. The DVD consists of 2 discs in PAL format for region 2, with a total run time of 450 minutes.

The Love School

Cast

Peter Egan as John Everett Millais

Ben Kingsley as Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Bernard Lloyd as William Holman Hunt

Gareth Hunt as Thomas Woolner

Patricia Quinn as Elizabeth Siddal

David Collings as John Ruskin

Anne Kidd as Effie Gray

Sheila White as Annie Miller

Kenneth Colley as Edward Burne-Jones

David Burke as William Morris

Kika Markham as Jane Morris

Malcolm Tierney as Ford Madox Brown

Episodes

Notes

External links

BBC television dramas

1975 British television series debuts

1975 British television series endings

1970s British drama television series

Costume drama television series

Period television series

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in popular culture

Cultural depictions of 19th-century painters

The Love School