Gentleman Jack season 2: The release date has been announced

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Suranne Jones will be back as pioneering landowner and diarist Anne Lister in season 2 of Gentleman Jack, returning to BBC One on 10th April.

The eight-part series will also feature the return of Peaky Blinders actress Sophie Rundle as Lister's wife Ann Walker, and Gemma Whelan as Marian Lister. BAFTA winner Joanna Scanlan will make her anticipated debut as Anne Lister's outrageous former lover Isabella 'Tib' Norcliffe.

BBC's synopsis reads: "Yorkshire, 1834. All eyes are on Anne Listerand Ann Walker as they set up home together at Shibden Hall as wife and wife, determined to combine their estates and become a power couple.

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"Anne Lister's entrepreneurial spirit frightens the locals as much as her unconventional love life and, with Halifax on the brink of revolution, her refusal to keep a low profile becomes provocative and dangerous."

Here's everything else we know about Gentleman Jack 2...

Gentleman Jack 2: Release date

Gentleman Jack 2 will arrive on BBC One and BBC iPlayer at 9pm on April 10th.

Gentleman Jack 2: The cast

Suranne Jones is back as the indomitable Anne Lister opposite Sophie Rundle as Lister's now-wife Ann Walker.

Also returning to Shibden Hall for Gentleman Jack series two are Gemma Jones as Aunt Anne Lister, and Timothy West as Jeremy Lister. They are joined by many returning cast including Jodhi May (Lady Vere Cameron), Katherine Kelly (Elizabeth Sutherland), Derek Riddell (Captain George Sutherland), Stephanie Cole (Aunt Ann Walker), Peter Davison (William Priestley), Amelia Bullmore (Eliza Priestley), Vincent Franklin (Christopher Rawson), Shaun Dooley (Jeremiah Rawson), Rosie Cavaliero (Elizabeth Cordingley), Joe Armstrong (Samuel Washington), Anthony Flanagan (Ben Sowden), and George Costigan (James Holt).

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BAFTA award winner Joanna Scanlan will join the cast as Walker's outrageous former lover Isabella 'Tib' Norcliffe.

Gentleman Jack 2: The plot

From Happy Valley writer Sally Wainwright, series two will again use the real life diaries of Anne Lister – parts of which were written in code – as its source, with every part of Lister's story based in historical fact and the five million words she wrote in her journals.

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Gentleman Jack will return to BBC One and BBC iPlayer on April 10th. Series one is available to stream in full on BBC iPlayer now.

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