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Lady Chatterley's Lover - Episode 2

In the series that takes a look at books, plays and stories and how they work, John Yorke examines Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D H Lawrence.

John Yorke looks into Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D H Lawrence. In this second of two episodes about the book, he looks at what drove Lawrence to use the language that got him into so much trouble and made the novel infamous. He outlines the book's other transgressions and what happened at that famous, ground-breaking trial in 1960.

John Yorke has worked in television and radio for nearly 30 years, and he shares his experience with Radio 4 listeners as he unpacks the themes and impact of the books, plays and stories that are being dramatized in Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4’s Sunday Drama series.

From EastEnders to the Archers, Life on Mars to Shameless, he has been obsessed with telling big popular stories. He has spent years analysing not just how stories work but why they resonate with audiences around the globe and has brought together his experience in his bestselling book Into the Woods. As former Head of Channel Four Drama, Controller of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Drama Production and MD of Company Pictures, John has tested his theories during an extensive production career working on some of the world’s most lucrative, widely viewed and critically acclaimed TV drama. As founder of the hugely successful Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Writers Academy John has trained a generation of screenwriters (his students have had 17 green-lights in the last two years alone).

Contributors:
Alison MacLeod, author of Tenderness
Geoff Dyer author of Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of DH Lawrence
Bill Goldstein author of The World Broke in Two
Reading by Ian Hogg

Credits:
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D H Lawrence, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 January 1990
Abridged for radio by Alan England
Read by Ian Hogg
Producer: Philip Martin, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Pebble Mill.

Produced by Alison Vernon-Smith
Executive Producer: Caroline Raphael
Sound by Sean Kerwin
A Pier production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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Sun 5 Feb 2023 14:45

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