蜜芽传媒

D.H. Lawrence was, according to EM Forster, 鈥渢he greatest imaginative novelist of our generation鈥� and while he was undoubtedly one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, he was also one of its most controversial.

During his lifetime, his books, including Lady Chatterley鈥檚 Lover and The Rainbow, were sometimes banned and sometimes burnt鈥� but the incandescence of his writing and its sometimes scandalous subject matter saw him become a beacon of freedom and liberty to his millions of passionate fans. The lifting of the Lady Chatterley ban in 1960 was famously for Philip Larkin a key moment in the dawning of a sexual revolution though the puritanical monogamist Lawrence would have no doubt disliked becoming a poster-boy for free love.

Effectively cancelled following accusations of misogyny levelled by Kate Millett in her 1970 book 鈥楽exual Politics鈥�, he is now finally being brought back into the cultural conversation - principally by women. In this new three-part series Michael Symmons Roberts, who came to Lawrence via his poems and the 1969 Ken Russell adaptation of Women in Love, speaks to guests including Joan Bakewell, Robert Lindsay, Alison MacLeod, Lara Feigel, Derek Owusu and Professor Phil Davies in a bid to better understand three key aspects of Lawrence鈥檚 life and work - class, nature - and first of all, sex.

Reader: Michael Socha
Producer: Geoff Bird
Production Coordinator: Mica Nepomuceno