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DH Lawrence: A Journey Without Shame: A Culture Show Special

The Culture Show

Season 0Episode 43Aired 2013-11-23
DH Lawrence: A Journey Without Shame: A Culture Show Special

DH Lawrence: A Journey Without Shame: A Culture Show Special

It's a hundred years since DH Lawrence's revolutionary novel, Sons and Lovers, first hit the bookshops - and to celebrate, the writer Geoff Dyer, accompanied by Lawrence scholar, Catherine Brown, retread the Alpine journey that the love-struck Lawrence made when he eloped from England with the sexually liberated Frieda Weekley, in 1912. It was an extraordinary trip that enabled him to complete his first masterpiece and also marked the moment when he decided to risk everything for his writing.