Are you a friend of Ron Carter?
January 29, 2016
I am eating delicious but unidentifiable sashimi, and looking out at the inside of the dormant caldera of a volcano. There is grass growing on the cold lava rock, and it feels like I am on top of a Bond villain’s lair. This is Kyushu, in Japan, and I’m here representing the university, a million …
Just a Gigolo
October 15, 2012
A few years ago I wrote a play called EMPTY BED BLUES about D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, which centred around the “true” – if somewhat controversial – story that Lady Chatterley’s Lover was inspired by Lawrence’s painful discovery of his wife’s love affair with Angelo Ravagli, their gardener in a rented villa in …
Adapting DH Lawrence’s ‘Women in Love’
March 24, 2011
The screenwriter, playwright and actor William Ivory received an honorary doctorate from Nottingham in 2009, and came back to the university on 17 March 2011 with the television producer Mark Pybus (whose parents are both graduates from Nottingham) to discuss the new BBC/Company Pictures version of Women in Love. The television film will be shown …
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