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World Service,03 Nov 2010,9 mins

The trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover 1960

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The novel Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence, tells the story of a passionate affair between an aristocratic woman and her gamekeeper. In the autumn of 1960 its publishers were tried for obscenity. The trial caused a media storm.

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