In Sex and the British, Paul Ferris looks at rapidly changing sexual mores in the 20th century. He talks to Nigel Forde , who also explores how novelists increasingly intrude on their characters' sex lives. Michael Arditti 's first novel The Celibate provides an antidote, and a new biography by Jenny Uglow examines the life of a chronicler of Victorian society Mrs Gaskell.
Producer Sally Marmion.