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How BBC bonkbuster The Pursuit of Love was inspired by the steamy lives of aristocratic hedonists Rod McPhee, TV Editor Updated: May 10 2021, 18:06 ET Rod McPhee, TV Editor Invalid Date, THE Pursuit Of Love has thrilled viewers with its look back at the decadent world of filthy-rich toffs indulging in sex, drugs and wild partying between the wars. But incredibly, the key characters in the racy period drama are based on REAL people. 14 The key characters in racy period drama The Pursuit of Love are based on real peopleCredit: BBC Volatile Linda Radlett (Lily James) was based on Nancy Mitford,...

Playboys and fallen women: the wild aristocrats who inspired The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford's novel, freshly adapted for the BBC, drew heavily on her social circle – and in particular her own eccentric family 10 May 2021 • 10:06am The Pursuit of Love's Lord Merlin (Andrew Scott, centre) was inspired by Gerald Berners Credit: Robert Viglasky/BBC When it comes to novel The Pursuit of Love – a new adaptation of which began on BBC One last night, written and directed by Emily Mortimer – the description that springs to mind is “larger than life”. Ironic, then, that Nancy Mitfor...

All the hype around the BBC’s sexy, much-trailed adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit Of Love, which started last night, is surely understandable. At times of crisis, we love a period drama — Downton Abbey, created and written by my uncle, Julian Fellowes, was born in the wake of the 2009 recession — and as a means of distracting the nation, you can’t get much better than Lily James in skimpy silk underwear and Fleabag vicar Andrew Scott in lashings of tweed. Yet the buzz about the show isn’t just because of the gorgeousness of the lead actors, or the romance of a plot that t...

With The Pursuit of Love, the Mitfords became the Kardashians of their day In her hit comic novel, Nancy Mitford reinvented her damaged, despicable family as adorable oddballs – and pioneered 'structured reality' 8 May 2021 • 5:00am Wishful thinking on a heartbreakingly grand scale: Lily James as Linda in The Pursuit of Love Credit: Robert Viglasky/BBC “My dear Lady Kroesig, I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It’s so frightfully good I’ve never bothered to read another.” So says Uncle Matthew in Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love, a glossy new ad...

The Pursuit of Love: Lily James hunts ideal man in show which led to Dominic West scandal Mirror 1 day ago Rhian Lubin Eyes shut, dancing with champagne glass in hand, Lily James is a picture of 1930s glamour in the new Sunday-night BBC drama, The Pursuit of Love, a tale of hedonism, romance and high society. The series is pure escapism, adapted from The Pursuit of Love, a novel written by Nancy Mitford about her own colourful life with her sisters, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica and Deborah. Lily says: “It’s a wonderful celebration of the Mitford sisters. Nancy wrote thi...