Dramatisations and readings of DH Lawrence's four best-known novels, as heard on BBC Radio 4Crowned 'the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation' by EM Forster, DH Lawrence has an undisputed place in England's canon of great authors. This collection brings together dramatisations and readings of his four most famous novels, exploring themes such as sexual desire, the complexity of human relationships, individual freedom and social change.Sons and LoversConflicts grow for Nottinghamshire mining family Gertrude and Walter Morel and their sons in this powerful full-cast dramatisation starring Benedict Sandiford and Elizabeth Estensen.The RainbowThis abridged version of Lawrence's classic explores the lives and loves of three generations of the Brangwen family at Marsh Farm. Read by David Bradley.Women in LoveIn this dramatisation of Lawrence's passionate novel - the sequel to The Rainbow - sisters Ursula and Gudrun attract the attention of two very different gentlemen - with very different responses to love. Starring Clare Holman, Stella Gonet, Douglas Hodge and Nicholas Farrell.Lady Chatterley's LoverAn emotionally frustrated aristocrat embarks on an adulterous affair with her gamekeeper in this abridged reading by Ian Hogg.About the Author: D. H. Lawrence, whose fiction has had a profound influence on twentieth-century literature, was born on September 11, 1885, in a mining village in Nottinghamshire, England. His father was an illiterate coal miner, his mother a genteel schoolteacher determined to lift her children out of the working class. His parents' unhappy marriage and his mother's strong emotional claims on her son later became the basis for Lawrence's Sons and Lovers (1913), one of the most important autobiographical novels of this century. In 1915, his masterpiece, The Rainbow, which like it's companion novel Women In Love (1920) dealt frankly with sex, was suppressed as indecent a month after its publication. Aaron's Road (1922); Kangaroo (1923), set in Australia; and The Plumed Serpent (1926), set in Mexico, were all written during Lawrence's travels in search of political and emotional refuge and healthful climate. In 1928, already desperately ill, Lawrence wrote Lady Chatterly's Lover. Banned as pornographic, the unexpurgated edition was not allowed legal circulation in Britain until 1960. D. H. Lawrence called his life, marked by struggle, frustration, and despair a savage enough pilgrimage. He died on March 2, 1930, at the age of 44, in Vence, France.