Lady Chatterley's Lover

Wow, Indinana, did she use his literature when teaching?
I used to use his short stories and poetry.

Tonight's production wasn't that good IMO. We watched it and weren't impressed. Left us shrugging and thinking, 'So what?'

I wouldn't want to see it again.

That's the one, Greyduster and Elegran. Thanks.

Oh bother, I was busy earlier and missed it, now I shall have to get it from catch up tv.

dj This sounds like it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pillars_of_the_Earth_%28miniseries%29

When we moved to our current house, our next door neighbour had just retired as head of English at the local grammar school. She told us that D H Lawrence was her uncle. She was born in Nottingham in around 1924 and remembers visiting him on several occasions. He died in 1930, so she only had very early memories of him, but given her career path I think he must have had at least some influence on her life!

Teetime has gone into Sunday afternoon reverie about Rufus Sewell

Pillars of the Earth, dj?

Was Rufus Sewell in a series about building a cathedral, with Ian McShane? Can't remember what it was called.

Teetime I have just read the book of Cold Comfort Farm, for the first time. I saw the production with Rufus Sewell in it when it was on TV recently and I agree. It was also one of the few adaptations that is at least as good as the book - it had Kate Beckinsale, Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellen, Rufus Sewell, Eileen Atkins, Stephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes, Rupert Penry-Jones and Angela Thorne - to name less than half the cast. I have even bought the DVD to show to DD and DGC when they are next here.

I had a vague memory that wives were involved, so I looked it up

I thought I was doing well to even remember the servants thing, I often can't remember what I did last week.

wow Ana, am mightily impressed by your memory!

The judge in question actually wondered whether it was "a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?" - so presumably in his world wives as well as servants had to have their reading matter censored!

I will be watching it anyway, as I never saw the Sean Bean programme [pity.]

to say the judiciary was slightly out of touch with the common man [even the one on the Clapham omnibus] was an amazement, even at that time.

it was mainly the judge who asked 'would you let your servants read this book'? that got the book released for sale, and amazingly, only in about 1962 if I remember correctly.

Remember the orange paperback being passed round the classroom with relevant pages turned down? Seems so tame now.