Sex Can Be Hidden ... I'm Good at Finding It ; Andrew Davies Is Famed for His Racy Adaptations of 19th-Century Classics. So Will He Breathe Passion Into the Ordered Life of City Clerk Mr Pooter?
Evening Standard - London › March 27, 2007
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Evening Standard - London › March 27, 2007
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QUITE honestly it's refreshing to have a break from smut for once," grins Andrew Davies, scriptwriting king of the heaving bosom and glimpsed buttock, who turned Mr Darcy into an erotic national icon and strips bare the heroines of 19th-century novels in ways their authors could scarcely have imagined.
Thanks to his skilful pen over the past two decades, the appetite for TV costume drama has been insatiable.See the full content of this document
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Sex Can Be Hidden ... I'm Good at Finding It ; Andrew Davies Is Famed for His Racy Adaptations of 19th-Century Classics. So Will He Breathe Passion Into the Ordered Life of City Clerk Mr Pooter?
Even literary purists were stunned at the way he shaped the complexity of Dickens's Bleak House into serially gripping drama.
Sitting at his tidy desk-cum-dining table at home in Warwickshire, Davies is talking about his latest adaptation, Diary of a Nobody, due on BBC4 in May."The closest we get to sex," he chuckles, "is when Pooter,...See the full content of this document
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