Desperate Romantics
Episodes

Desperate Romantics

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No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)

1	"Episode 1"	Paul Gay	Peter Bowker	21 July 2009	2.61

Fred Walters introduces the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt, to their perfect model: hat shop girl Lizzie Siddal.

2	"Episode 2"	Paul Gay	Peter Bowker	28 July 2009	2.13

Having caught the attention of John Ruskin, the Brotherhood attempt to persuade him to buy their work. Millais, preoccupied by thoughts of Ruskin's wife Effie, fails to prevent Lizzie falling unconscious with pneumonia while posing for him as Ophelia, leaving Rossetti bereft at the prospect of losing the woman he loves.

3	"Episode 3"	Paul Gay	Peter Bowker	4 August 2009	2.15

The Brotherhood have secured John Ruskin's patronage, but their personal lives are still rife with problems. Fred longs uselessly for Lizzie, who remains besotted with an evasive and lazy Rossetti, once again struggling to apply himself to creating the elusive "masterpiece".

4	"Episode 4"	Diarmuid Lawrence	Peter Bowker	11 August 2009	1.92

With Hunt away in the Holy Land, Fred's promise to take care of Annie takes an unexpected turn when she seduces him.

5	"Episode 5"	Diarmuid Lawrence	Peter Bowker	18 August 2009	1.96

Ruskin is displeased by Rossetti and Lizzie's partying and debauchery, funded by his patronage, and orders them to focus on their work, instructing Lizzie to paint each day at his house and Rossetti to complete a church mural.

6	"Episode 6"	Diarmuid Lawrence	Peter Bowker	25 August 2009	1.76

Following her marriage to Rossetti, Lizzie is distraught to discover that Ruskin has lost interest in her as an artist and is now tutoring Rose la Touche instead.

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