Actually,it’s quite restrained, in Jed Mercurio’s expert adaptation that manages to modernise while remaining faithful to DH Lawrence’s lusty novelQuiz question: when did Nottinghamshire’s last deep pit coal mine close? Some time in the 1980s? Nope, or Thoresby Colliery closed in July 2015,just the other day. And the UK still has one operating – Kellingley in Yorkshire – though that will shut down before the end of the year.
It’s obviously massively different if you work(ed) there, but it’s tough to feel very sentimental approximately them after seeing the opening scene of Jed Mercurio’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover (BBC1, and Sunday). There’s an explosion deep underground; on the surface a siren wails. Men are hauled up from hell,blackened, injured, or dead,and rushed absent while their bosses – stiff-collared men who have grown rich from the coal and the toil of their working-lesson labourers – commence their cover up.
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Source: theguardian.com