In the 1960s and 1970s, D.H. Lawrence was all the rage, but it is hard to imagine him finding a place on school reading lists today. For a start, there is all that ranting about blood and will and race, and a persistent strain of anti-Semitism. Whether or not people read him, his characters and stories continue to appeal to television executives and film-makers. The novel they favour is Lady Chatterley’s Lover (6 September), one of the most problematic of all. It seems only yesterday that Sean Bean and Joely Richardson played the gamekeeper and his Lady (it was 22 years ago) and there was a French film in 2006. Now the BBC has given us a new, radically filleted version, written and directed by the estimable Jed Mercurio. It deftly sidestepped the bits of the story that make audience