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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20040929
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Byline: PETER PATERSON

A Thing Called Love (BBC1)

THE GHOST of D.H. Lawrence was awakened last night in the opening episode of A Thing Called Love.

For this was a clear attempt to pursue Lawrentian themes in the unlikely context of young workingclass people in Nottingham today who've probably never read him, or even heard of him.

Lawrence's burning - some would say barmy - idealism over matters of love and sex was recreated in the soul of painter and decorator Gary Scant by writer William Ivory, himself, like Lawrence, a Nottingham man.

Lawrence was brought ...

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