The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul - determined they will not follow their father into working down the coal mines. But conflict is evitable when Paul seeks to escape his mother's suffocating grasp through relationships with women his own age. Set in Lawrence's native...

A collection of stories from D.H. Lawrence.

When Lizzie Holroyd falls in love with another man, she wishes her boorish husband dead, a wish that comes horribly true. The rainbow: Deals with the sexual awakening of Ursula Brangwen, portrayed by Imogen Stubbs in this adaptation. At the time of its publication in 1915, the novel was considered so shocking that it was tried and found obscene and magistrates ordered all unsold copies burned.

Set in an English mining community on the crest of modernity, this traces the shifting currents of desire that link the emancipated Brangwen sisters to a freethinking dreamer and a hard willed industrialist, as well as the men's own erotically charged friendship.

133 of the world's most famous poems cleverly preformed and artistically interpreted by The First Poetry Quartet and celebrity guests.