BBC One has revealed the cast for Line of Duty creator Jed Mercurio’s new adaptation of DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, from the makers of Sherlock. Holliday Grainger (Tulip Fever) will play Lady Chatterley with James Norton (Happy Valley) as her war-wounded husband Sir Clifford Chatterley and Richard Madden (Game Of Thrones) as gamekeeper Oliver … >
Richard Madden has teased the possiblity of a role in the new series of Doctor Who.
For a drama about war, a surprising amount of dying happens quietly off-screen in the concluding part of Philip Martin’s adaptation of Birdsong, to devastating effect.
So far this is a wonderful take on a novel that has proved notoriously hard to adapt to the screen since its publication in 1993.
Yesterday we went along to the BAFTA screening of BBC One’s upcoming First World War epic to see what she and director Philip Martin have made of Faulks’ elusive narrative.