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Why ‘Lady Chatterley’ Still Provokes Us
On the set of the BBC’s recent adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s novel, I realised that his most controversial book is as important as ever
Catherine Brown

The Greatest Man I Ever Knew?
The rich, varied, and absorbing life, and careers, of John Freeman
Paul Johnson

Predictable Pot-Shots At Auntie
The stifling right-wing press has adopted a cultish refusal to publish one good word about the BBC
Nick Cohen

Protestant Power Games
Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, superbly adapted for television, is brilliant because it defies easy definition
Nick Cohen

Who’s in Charge of BBC News?
The Corporation's reporting and investigations are still essential-but now they are threatened from within 
Nick Cohen

Rivers of Babylon
The great provocateur - Joan Rivers
Peter Whittle

Revolt of the TV Eunuchs
Celebrity presenters such as Jon Snow reject impartiality. But the news must not be twisted
Nick Cohen

A Saga with Staying Power
Revisiting the unsurpassed TV glories of The Forsyte Saga
Simon Heffer

Civilisation: Do we know it when we see it? He did
The presenter the BBC chooses to remake Kenneth Clark's seminal series has a tough act to follow
David Herman

Typecast by the ‘ologies
‘I know that my obituary will read "Lipman Gets Cut Off", but I honestly thought the BT 'ology commercials were toasted bagels-until Nigel Farage brought it all back'
Maureen Lipman

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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