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Don’t believe The Pursuit of Love – not all aristocrats are bigots, buffoons and bounders Are the English upper classes an absurd alien race? The makers of The Pursuit of Love – and many more TV dramas – certainly seem to think so Lily James as Linda in The Pursuit of Love Credit: BBC Emily Mortimer’s production of The Pursuit of Love presented her with an interesting conundrum. She was not just bringing the eccentric aristocracy to the screen, she was adapting them from Nancy Mitford’s adaptation, so she was already two steps away. A series such as The Crown is easier to dissec...

Forty Years of ITV’s ‘Brideshead Revisited’ – Charming, Sentimental and Tragic Brian Dillon on the television programme’s museum of images and memories  A meditation on ‘divine grace’, a hymn to the ‘splendours of the recent past’ – this is how Evelyn Waugh described his 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited. The grace is more earthbound, the splendours more ravishing in Granada Television’s celebrated adaptation, which turns 40 this year. In the autumn of 1981, a gilt stratum of English life in the 1920s and ’30s sauntered across British screens, its pri...

Keir Starmer attempted a reshuffle yesterday after disastrous Super Thursday e The Labour leader seemingly failed to demote his deputy Angela Rayner  She got plum job after a bitter 24-hour standoff with tensions raging for months Hartlepool election chief 'complained' over Ms Rayner's scruffy dress  on visit Her team 'hit the roof' and claim that Starmer's team consider her a 'working class oik and a bit thick'

The Pursuit of Love director Emily Mortimer has spoken about adapting Nancy Mitford's novel for the BBC.

4 May 2021 • 6:00am Lily James and Emily Beecham share a bath in a scene from the first episode of The Pursuit of Love The Mitford sisters would doubtless approve. Emily Mortimer, the daughter of the novelist John Mortimer, has admitted she channelled her inner “punk” to make the raciest version yet of Nancy Mitford’s classic novel The Pursuit of Love. As this first photograph from the BBC’s new lavish costume drama shows, it’s all drama and very little costume. The three-part serial, which begins screening on Sunday in the slot vacated by Line of Duty, takes the much-loved novel ...