Set in and among the alleys, galleries and flesh-houses of 19th-century industrial London, Desperate Romantics follows the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood painters, a vagabond group of English painters, poets and critics.

3 x BBC hour length episodes, 36 day shoot. Big ask for period drama, some very full on days. Ext/Int sets at Pinewood, weddings, funerals, paintings and more paintings, filming on water and a lot of shagging.....

Director: DIARMUID LAWRENCE
Producer: BEN EVANS
Writter: PETER BOWKER
Designer: MELANIE ALLEN
D.O.P. ALAN ALMOND

Cast included: Aidan Turner, Sam Barnett, Tom Hollander, Rafe Spall, Mark Heap, Samuel West, Phil Davis