Wide Sargasso Sea (2006 film)

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| runtime = 90 minutes

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| starring = Rafe Spall
Rebecca Hall
Nina Sosanya
Victoria Hamilton

| country = United Kingdom

| channel = BBC Four

| producer = Kudos Film & Television

| first_aired = {{start date|2006|10|9|df=y}}

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| num_episodes = 1

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Wide Sargasso Sea is a British television adaptation of Jean Rhys's 1966 novel of the same name.

Produced by Kudos Film & Television for BBC Wales, the one-off 90-minute drama was first broadcast on digital television channel BBC Four on 9 October 2006.{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/d2d96cd02c084e79a5a5c871053248e2|title=Wide Sargasso Sea|date=9 October 2006|issue=4305|pages=79|via=BBC Genome}} It was repeated on BBC One on Sunday, 22 October 2006, the week following the conclusion of BBC One's adaptation of Jane Eyre, to which Wide Sargasso Sea is a prequel.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074sy4|title = BBC Four - Wide Sargasso Sea}}

The adaptation was scripted by playwright Stephen Greenhorn, produced by Elwen Rowlands and directed by Brendan Maher.{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8be983d5|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170302232219/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8be983d5|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 March 2017|title=Wide Sargasso Sea (2006)|website=BFI}} It starred Rebecca Hall as Antoinette Cosway and Rafe Spall as Rochester.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/wide-sargasso-sea-v482296|title=Wide Sargasso Sea (2006) - Brendan Maher, Brian Maher | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie|via=allmovie.com}}