Coming to 成人论坛 One this Christmas is a brand new adaptation by BAFTA Award-winning Amanda Coe (Apple Tree Yard, The Trial of Christine Keeler) of Rumer Godden's iconic 1939 tale of sexual repression and forbidden love. Amanda introduces the drama on our blog.
Screenwriter Amanda Coe explains what drew her to the story of the 1961 affair between John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War in Harold Macmillan's Conservative government and Christine Keeler, and her subsequent trial.
Amanda Coe explains the challenges of writing an 'authored piece' for television, depicting the lives of the literary and artistic Bloomsbury Group, including the writer Virginia Woolf and her sister, the artist Vanessa Bell.