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Kathleen Byron in Black Narcissus Credit: Alamy In a monastery halfway up the Himalayas, in the summer of 1946, a young Englishwoman pulled a gun on her married lover. “It was a revolver, a big one, US army issue, and it was loaded,” Black Narcissus director Michael Powell would later write of his snow-capped showdown with paramour Kathleen Byron. “A naked woman and a loaded gun are persuasive objects, and I have always thought that I deserved congratulations for talking myself out of that one.” The story may not be quite as scandalous as it initially sounds. Firstly, while Black Nar...

BBC One's erotically charged TV adaptation of Black Narcissus, which stars Bond girl Gemma Arterton as Sister Clodagh and newcomer Aisling Franciosi as Sister Ruth, has the critics raving. The story of nuns with buried passions in an isolated palace-turned-convent high in the Himalayas — a palace that was once the home of concubines — is brilliantly conjured.  Its writer, Amanda Coe, who was behind the gripping TV adaptation of Apple Tree Yard, has described the drama as 'The Shining with nuns' after the Stanley Kubrick horror film. BBC One's erotically charged TV adaptation of Black Nar...