The Real Anne Lister | Trailer

Comedian and presenter Sue Perkins takes a personal journey to bring Anne Lister’s diary to life, as she looks at a lesbian life lived two hundred years ago against a backdrop of massive social, economic and political change.

Anne Lister, 1791-1840, was a Yorkshire landowner, industrialist, traveler and diarist. She was a lesbian, who, despite needing to keep her orientation secret from society at large, in private defied the conventions of her times by living with her female lover.