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 BBC 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 BBC 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 BBC 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, BBC Radio 4 January 1990

Abridged for radio by Alan England

Read by Ian Hogg

Producer: Philip Martin, BBC Pebble Mill.

Produced by Alison Vernon-Smith

Executive Producer: Caroline Raphael

Sound by Sean Kerwin

A Pier production for BBC Radio 4

Episode ID: 1000597114677

GUID: urn:bbc:podcast:m001hwtm

Release Date: 29/01/2023, 14:35:00