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Edgar Allan Poe: Love, Death, and Women

Crime author Denise Mina investigates the life and work of one of the world's greatest horror writers, Edgar Allan Poe. The relationships between Poe and the women in his life - mother, wife, paramour and muse - were tenuous at best, disastrous at worst, yet they provided inspiration and stimulus for some of the most terrifying and influential short stories of the early 19th century. Travelling between New York, Virginia and Baltimore, Mina unravels Poe's tortuous and peculiar relationships. Dramatised inserts take us into the minds of Poe and his women through their own letters, journals and published writing.

Top Cast

  • Denise Mina

    Denise Mina

    Presenter

  • Jeff Mash

    Jeff Mash

    Poe (voice)

  • Lucille Sharp

    Lucille Sharp

    Virginia Poe

  • Anita Vettesse

    Anita Vettesse

    Frances Sargent Osgood

  • Tamara Kennedy

    Tamara Kennedy

    Sarah Helen Whitman

  • Lauren Marcus

    Lauren Marcus

    Eliza Poe

  • Lorenzo Bajrami

    Lorenzo Bajrami

    Baby Poe

Overview

Crime author Denise Mina investigates the life and work of one of the world's greatest horror writers, Edgar Allan Poe. The relationships between Poe and the women in his life - mother, wife, paramour and muse - were tenuous at best, disastrous at worst, yet they provided inspiration and stimulus for some of the most terrifying and influential short stories of the early 19th century. Travelling between New York, Virginia and Baltimore, Mina unravels Poe's tortuous and peculiar relationships. Dramatised inserts take us into the minds of Poe and his women through their own letters, journals and published writing.

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