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Lottie Gibbons

BBC The English plot, how many episodes, full cast list, start date and time

BBC's new Western drama The English starring award-winning actress Emily Blunt starts this week.

The show follows an aristocratic Englishwoman, Lady Cornelia Locke and a Pawnee ex-cavalry scout, Eli Whipp, who come together in 1890 mid-America to cross a violent landscape built on dreams and blood.

Both of them have a clear sense of their destiny but neither is aware that it is rooted in a shared past. They must face increasingly terrifying obstacles that will test them to their cores, physically and psychologically.

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But as each obstacle is overcome it draws them closer to their ultimate destination, the new town of Hoxem, Wyoming.

It is here, after an investigation by the local sheriff Robert Marshall and young widow Martha Myers into a series of bizarre and macabre unsolved murders, that the full extent of their intertwined history will be truly understood, and they will come face to face with the future they must live.

How many episodes of The English are there?

There are six episodes of The English, each lasting 50 minutes.

The English will launch on BBC Two, with all episodes available on BBC iPlayer, on Thursday, November 10 at 9pm.

Full cast list of The English

  • Cornelia Locke - Emily Blunt
  • Eli Whipp - Chaske Spencer
  • Sheriff Robert Marshall - Stephen Rea
  • Martha Myers - Valerie Pachner
  • David Melmont - Rafe Spall
  • Thomas Trafford - Tom Hughes
  • Richard M Watts - Ciarán Hinds
  • Sebold Cusk - Toby Jones

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