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The Lady Chatterley Trial: Regina v Penguin Books Ltd

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Compiled by Jack Emery from the original transcript, presented by Helena Kennedy.
20 October 1960, the Old Bailey: the start of one of the most controversial trials of the English legal system.
Was D. H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" just a dirty book or was it literature?
With comments from the current DPP, Allan Green and Lord Hutchinson.
(Stereo)
(See A Book at Bedtime: Lady Chatterley's Lover)
See panel opposite

Contributors

Compiled by:
Jack Emery
Presenter:
Helena Kennedy.
Guest:
Allan Green
Guest:
Lord Hutchinson
Director:
John Theocharis
Mr Justice Byrne:
Richard Vernon
Mervyn Griffith-Jones, QC:
John Shrapnel
Gerald Gardiner, QC:
Frederick Treves
Jeremy Hutchinson:
John Rowe
Clerk of the Court:
Jack Emery
The Witnesses:
Graham Hough/Roy Jenkins: Denis Lill
Helen Gardner:
Margaret Courtenay
Joan Bennett:
Marcia King
Bishop of Woolwich:
Michael Kilgarriff
The Rev A.S. Hopkinson:
Christopher Good
Richard Hoggart:
Terry Molloy
E.M. Forster:
Danny Schiller
Dr C.J. Hemming:
David Neal
Norman St. John Stevas:
Nicholas Gilbrook
Jack Lambert:
John Samson
Sir Allen Lane:
Norman Bird
Dilys Powell:
Susan Sheridan
John Connell:
John Church
Bernardine A.L. Wall:
Jane Slavin
Source: Radio Times

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