Episode 2

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Episode 2 of 2

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

Adaptation of DH Lawrence's classic novels The Rainbow and Women in Love, focusing on the lives of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen and their developing relationships with two friends, Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich, in the aftermath of the First World War.

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  • BBC TV Blog: Bringing Women In Love to the screen

    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."

    Read and comment on William Ivory's post at the BBC TV Blog
  • BBC Radio 4: Front Row: Women in Love

    BBC Radio 4: Front Row: Women in Love

    Screenwriter William Ivory discusses adapting Women in Love for TV.

    Listen to BBC Radio 4: Front Row: Women in Love
  • BBC Radio 4: Great Lives: DH Lawrence

    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.

    Listen to BBC Radio 4: Great Lives: DH Lawrence
  • Photo: Olivia Grant as Hermione Roddice

    Photo: Olivia Grant as Hermione Roddice

  • Photo: Ursula Brangwen, Rupert Birkin, Gerald Crich

    Photo: Ursula Brangwen, Rupert Birkin, Gerald Crich

    Rachael Stirling as Ursula Brangwen, Rory Kinnear as Rupert Birkin, Joseph Mawle as Gerald Crich

  • Photo: Rachael Stirling as Ursula Brangwen

    Photo: Rachael Stirling as Ursula Brangwen

  • Photo: Joseph Mawle as Gerald Crich

    Photo: Joseph Mawle as Gerald Crich

  • Photo: Rosamund Pike as Gudrun Brangwen and Rachael Stirling as Ursula Brangwen

    Photo: Rosamund Pike as Gudrun Brangwen and Rachael Stirling as Ursula Brangwen

Credits

Gudrun Brangwen
Rosamund Pike
Ursula Brangwen
Rachael Stirling
Gerald Crich
Joseph Mawle
Rupert Birkin
Rory Kinnear
Hermione Roddice
Olivia Grant
Mr Crich
Patrick Lyster
Mr Sutton
Iain Winter
Loerke
Grant Swanby
Samantha
Tinarie van Wyk-Loots
Alexander Roddice
James Alexander
Winifred
Tamia Visagie
Aunt of German Girl
Michele Maxwell
Young German Girl
Natasha Loring
Maurice
Chad Phillips
Nurse
Victoria Bartlett
Servant at Shortlands
Michael Tompson
Boy with Gun
Daniel Kotzen
Director
Miranda Bowen
Producer
Mark Pybus
Writer
William Ivory

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