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The Trial of Lady Chatterley: Louise Delamere and Rafe Spall
  THE CHATTERLEY AFFAIR

"Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?" In 1960, prosecutor Mervyn Griffith-Jones tried to persuade an Old Bailey jury to ban DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover.

All the details of the trial are on record. Except for what the jury said, thought... and did.

Andrew Davies' new drama offers a fictional account of the jurors' experience. It is seen through the eyes of Keith (Rafe Spall) and Helena (Louise Delamere), two of the jurors who fall in love under the influence of Lawrence's prose.

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Louise Delamere and Rafe Spall   "WE MUST BE ABLE TO READ IT UNEXPURGATED"  
Gerald Gardiner (Donald Sumpter) outlines the defence and two jurors get to know one another intimately.
 
 

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ANDREW DAVIES
Writer Interview
"The sex scenes feel pretty real and pretty raw"
  Andrew Davies
BANNED BOOKS QUIZ
Do you know your transgressive tomes?
Quiz: Lady Chatterley's Lover

 IN PICTURES
Meet the cast of The Trial of Lady Chatterley

 HAVE YOUR SAY
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BBC Links

On This Day
Watch a BBC News report on the Chatterley verdict

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Bound and Gagged
Extract from book about the Lady Chatterley trial

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