The Chatterley Affair is a BBC television drama broadcast on BBC Four on March 20, 2006. The fictionalised account of the obscenity trial surrounding the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover is written by Andrew Davies and directed by James Hawes. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the publicly-funded radio and television broadcasting corporation of the United Kingdom (see British television). ... BBC Four is a BBC television channel available to digital television (Freeview, satellite and cable) viewers in the UK. The successor to an earlier digital channel called BBC Knowledge, BBC Four began broadcasting on March 2, 2002 - its first evenings programming being simulcast on BBC Two. ... March 20 is the 79th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (80th in Leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lady Chatterleys Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence written in 1928. ... Andrew Davies (born 1936 in Cardiff, Wales) is a British screenwriter. ... James Hawes is a British television director, who has worked on a variety of the most popular series on British television since the early 1990s. ...
It stars Louise Delamere and Rafe Spall as two jurors who fall in love during the trial. Also featured are numerous real-life participants in the trial, such as judge Mr Justice Byrne (played here by Karl Johnson), prosecutor Mervyn Griffith-Jones (Pip Torrens), defence lawyer Gerald Gardiner (Donald Sumpter) and sociologistRichard Hoggart (David Tennant). Rafe Spall Rafe Joseph Spall (born on the 10th March 1983 in East Dulwich south London) is a British actor and is the son of the actor Timothy Spall. ... Gerald Austin Gardiner, Baron Gardiner of Kittisford in the County of Somerset, PC KC (30 May 1900-7 January 1990) was Lord Chancellor from 1964 to 1970 and during that time he introduced into British law as many reforms as any Lord Chancellor had done before or since. ... Social interactions of people and their consequences are the subject of sociology studies. ... Richard Hoggart (born September 24, 1918) is a British sociologist, widely known for his 1957 book The Uses of Literacy. ... David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who. ...
The scenes set in the Old Bailey were filmed in the disused Kingston Crown Court at Kingston Town Hall. The Old Bailey by Mountford (1907) The Central Criminal Court, commonly known as The Old Bailey (a bailey being part of a castle), is a Crown Court (criminal high court) in London, dealing with major criminal cases in the UK. It stands on the site of the mediaeval Newgate Gaol...
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