Report of the Ninth Meeting of the London D. H. Lawrence Group Catherine Brown Lawrence's Short Stories...
Films
The Ethics and Politics of ‘Killing Eve’
The following article was written for The Article and published on 21st May 2020; it may be read here....
Loveless
Dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev (1964-), Arte France Cinéma, Why Not Productions, released 13.5.2017, 128 minutes. To...
The Death of Stalin
The Death of Stalin, 2017, dir. Armando Iannucci, adapted by Iannucci, David Schneider and Ian Martin from the French...
Lipstick on Your Collar: My Fascination for the Nineteen-Fifties
There are, I find, many advantages to being born relatively late for your generation. Your parents know pretty...
Fakespeare makes good, apart from on Leveson: King Charles III
King Charles III, film, 90 minutes, broadcast BBC2 10th May 2017, director Rupert Goold, screenplay Mike...
Three Girls: A Magnificent Response to the Rochdale Child Abuse Ring
BBC 1 miniseries, 3 episodes of 60 minutes Screenwriter: Nicole Taylor Director: Philippa Lowthorpe Broadcast...
Fear on Camera: Papa Doc’s Haiti
I am rereading Graham Greene’s 1966 novel The Comedians, which I first read as an earnest fifteen-year-old...
Rough Justice: ‘And Then There Were None’ & ‘An Inspector Calls’
Last autumn/winter BBC1 produced two great adaptations of mid-twentieth century British literary smash-hits....
Corfus of the Mind
Sources in order of recency: Conversation with my mother-in-law Alexia Mercouris née Stephanides...
SPECTRE
2015, 148 minutes, dir. Sam Mendes As a big fan of James Bond and a moderate fan of Daniel Craig, I was...
An Englishly-sunny War and Peace
Six episodes broadcast from 3.1.2016 onwards on BBC1, 6 hrs 30 in total Adapter Andrew Davies, Director Tom Harper...
On Script Consulting for BBC1’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover
This article was published in The Independent on Sunday 30th August 2015. The following is a pre-edited text. ...
The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies
The title plays on Die Verlohrene Ehre von Katherina Blum (The Lost Honour of Katherina Blum), Heinrich Böll’s...
Lawrence’s ‘Women in Love’ on the Small Screen
This review was published in 'The D.H. Lawrence Newsletter' no. 89, Spring/Summer 2011, 12-18, and is made available...
Journey Without Shame
This sixty minute BBC2 Culture Show special concerns D.H. Lawrence's 'honeymoon' journey with Frieda...
Victoriana in London 2013-14
The Invisible Woman (dir. Ralph Fiennes, 2013) The Dickens Museum (Doughty Street, London) The Midland...
Skyfall
Dir. Sam Mendes, 2012 ‘Skyfall.’ ‘Done.’ So I reflected yesterday evening as I left the cinema, having finally got...