A Middle Eastern television company travelled west this week to capture the lives of the Bronte sisters on film.

Satellite television company MBC TV, based in Battersea, London, spent a day in Haworth capturing the history of the famous literary family for its popular women's magazine programme Anti.

The crew started by shooting numerous scenes in the famous Bronte Parsonage Museum to provide a background to the family's life. They also enlisted the help of parsonage librarian Ann Dinsdale, who donned period dress to re-enact the life of Charlotte Bronte.

She was filmed pacing around the table to reconstruct Charlotte's movements after the tragic death of her sisters.

The crew then moved to Top Withens to film the countryside that is believed to be the backdrop for Emily Bronte's masterpiece Wuthering Heights.

Researcher and producer of the show Taghred Elsanhouri explains: "We are here to look at the lives of the Bronte sisters because I believe Arabic women do identify with the Bronte's, as they live a similar existence.

"They are expected to be in the home and for many a career is still secondary, so I feel the Bronte's desire to forge a career and their creativity will be something many Arabic women will identify with.

"Their lives, faith and also their very strict morals are things that women can associate with, because they are still very much part of Middle Eastern culture."

The programme on the Brontes will be shown on MBC in two weeks' time and will be beamed to the station's estimated 30-50 million viewers in the Middle East, Europe and America.

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