'Bramwell' Season 1 / Episode 4 / Part 4 * JEMMA REDGRAVE as Dr. Eleanor Bramwell

From the PBS Masterpiece Theatre series first aired far too many years ago. From Season 1, Episode 4, Part 4.

This remains one of my favourite Masterpiece Theatre offerings ever! Jemma Redgrave's Dr. Eleanor Bramwell displays many admirable qualities as she struggles to become a physician/surgeon in the male-dominated world of Victorian England, yet her Bramwell also shows some very human foibles, tool, giving the audience a more interesting, credible and sympathetic character. The re-creation of clinical scenes is also quite accurate (and occasionally not for the squeamish!).

SYNOPSIS :
Set in 1895, 'Bramwell' follows the fortunes of feisty, compassionate Dr. Eleanor Bramwell (JEMMA REDGRAVE, daughter of Corin Redgrave, and niece of Vanessa and Lynn) in her pursuit of public health and private amours in Victorian-era London. Eleanor's father Robert (DAVID CALDER) would like his daughter to join him in his respectable private practice, but Eleanor has plans of her own, which take her from the drawing rooms of the elite to the shocking deprivation of the slums of London's East End.

CAST :
Eleanor Bramwell . . . Jemma Redgrave
Robert Bramwell . . . David Calder

Written by Lucy Gannon
Directed by David Tucker and Laura Sims
Produced by Tim Whitby and Harriet Davison

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SEASON 1.
EPISODE 4
Eleanor is flattered by the attentions of Dr. Samuel Hunter, who is first to pledge financial support for the struggling Thrift at a party organized by Lady Cora Peters. But when Dr. Hunter's housekeeper dies, Eleanor becomes suspicious of her apparent suitor and puts her professional reputation on the line when she accuses him of committing murder.

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To purchase the Complete First Season DVD set, visit these links, among others:

http://www.amazon.com/Bramwell-Complete-Season-Ruth-Sheen/dp/B0009NZ76U/ref=s...

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=6871640&style=movie

http://www.amazon.co.uk/BRAMWELL-1-Robert-Hardy/dp/B001ZBT978

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• Calder
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• Masterpiece
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[BelatedCommiseration]

I quite agree with the last statement. Thank you for uploading, I can't imagine anyone having a bad word to say about this series in terms of the actors or the stories of the visuals. I will say that the Bramwell character can get annoying at times. Whenever she gets personally involved with anyone or thing everyone has to jump, when nurse carr strikes up her surrogate mum thing with the kid she gets stormed over and lectured. Double standards. But then thats what victorians were all about.