My Brother Jonathan (TV series)

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My Brother Jonathan
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GenreDrama
Based on My Brother Jonathan
by Francis Brett Young
Written byJames Andrew Hall
Directed byAnthony Garner
Starring Daniel Day-Lewis
Composer Stanley Myers
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes5
Production
Running time50 minutes
Production company BBC
Original release
Network BBC Two
Release12 August (1985-08-12) 
9 September 1985 (1985-09-09)

My Brother Jonathan is a British television drama series which first aired on BBC 2 in five episodes between 12 August and 9 September 1985. [1] It is based on the 1928 novel of the same name by Francis Brett Young, which had previously been made into a 1948 film My Brother Jonathan . Jonathan Dakers is an idealistic young doctor in a coal-mining area of Northern England around the time of the First World War.

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