BBC RADIO presenter Samira Ahmed will introduce the Bradford screening of a historic film of Jane Eyre.

Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles starred in the 1943 black-and-white film version of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel.

The film will be shown at the Pictureville Cinema, in the National Media Museum, on Saturday, July 9 and is part of an event beginning at 7.30pm.

Jane Eyre: Afterlives will begin with a panel discussion exploring the many facets of the Brontë phenomenon from literary inspiration to tourism, marketing to fan fiction.

Samira, presenter of Radio 4’s flagship arts show Front Row, will chair the panel.

Members will include Mick Jackson, whose latest novel Yuki Chan In Brontë Country follows a young Japanese woman retracing her mother’s footsteps around Haworth.

There will also be Lauren Livesey, who for several months wrote the Keighley News’s regular column about the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, and Dr Amber Regis, lecturer in 19th century literature at the University of Sheffield.

Jane Eyre, which starred John Fontaine in the title role and Orson Welles as the brooding Rochester, will be screened after the panel discussion. The film, which was directed by Robert Stephenson, will be presented in 35mm.

Visit picturehouses.com/cinema/National_Media_Museum to book tickets.