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Synopsis
Adaptation of DH Lawrence's classic novels The Rainbow and Women in Love, focusing on the lives of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, as they struggle with love, passion and commitment in the build up to the First World War.
BBC Radio 4: Great Lives: DH Lawrence
Recorded in front of an audience at the Arnolfini in Bristol, poet John Hegley and presenter Matthew Parris discusses the life and work of DH Lawrence.
BBC Radio 4: Front Row: Women in Love
Screenwriter William Ivory discusses adapting Women in Love for TV.
Photo: Rory Kinnear as Rupert Birkin and Joseph Mawle as Gerald Crich
Photo: Rosamund Pike as Gudrun Brangwen and Rachael Stirling as Ursula Brangwen
Photo: Rory Kinnear as Rupert Birkin and Rachael Stirling as Ursula Brangwen
Photo: Rosamund Pike as Gudrun Brangwen and Ben Daniels as Will Brangwen
BBC TV Blog: Bringing Women In Love to the screen
Screenwriter William Ivory on adapting DH Lawrence's classic novels: "He's a brilliant writer who tackled many complex issues, who put women at the very core of so much of what he wrote and who examined sex in detail."
Credits
- Gudrun Brangwen
- Rosamund Pike
- Ursula Brangwen
- Rachael Stirling
- Gerald Crich
- Joseph Mawle
- Rupert Birkin
- Rory Kinnear
- Anna Brangwen
- Saskia Reeves
- Will Brangwen
- Ben Daniels
- Hermione Roddice
- Olivia Grant
- Anton Skrebensky
- Joseph Kennedy
- Mr Crich
- Patrick Lyster
- Billy Brangwen
- Shaun Acker
- Abby
- Jenna Dunster
- Halliday
- Nicholas Pauling
- Maxim
- Colin Moss
- Frederick
- Rory Acton Burnell
- Pussum
- Erica Wessels
- Nightclub Singer
- Edith Plaatjies
- Young Ursula
- Robyn Fischhoff
- Robert
- Jeremy Crutchley
- Diana Crich
- Roxanne Prentice
- Girl in park
- Sammy T Dobson
- Laura Crich
- Christina d'Orthez
- Beatrice
- Susan Danford
- Soldier on train
- Nikolai Mynhardt
- Director
- Miranda Bowen
- Producer
- Mark Pybus
- Writer
- William Ivory
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