I kept sending Lily videos of Anna Karenina doing funny dances and made them all watch A Bout de Souffle and Jules et Jim,” she said. I want it to feel like a French film that’s made in 1965 or something, I want it to feel cool and sexy. “I don’t want this to feel like a period drama that’s made now about the 1930s.

Speaking at the Mipcom showcase, organized by The Pursuit Of Love sales house BBC Studios, Mortimer said she wanted the 1930s-set series to subvert period drama conventions, revealing that she drew inspiration from Sofia Coppola’s 2006 feature Marie Antoinette. , this three-part drama vividly evokes the colourful atmosphere of 18th Century Versailles, and Louis XV's tempestuous relationship with his adored mistress, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour.Amazon Unscripted Exec Chris Castallo Moves To Scripted Teamįanny is central to Mitford’s second and third novels, but Collier said the first book’s “extraordinary characters continue to circle around the place.” Andrew Scott, Dominic West, Dolly Wells, Beattie Edmondson, Assaad Bouab, Shazad Latif and Freddie Fox also star in Season 1. Produced by Norman Wright.įirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 23 February 1974Ī glamorous invitation to a grand party at Hampton - home of the fantastically rich Montdores and their beautiful daughter Polly - brings Fanny into the world of 1920s high society: and in and out of love when the temperature drops.ĭramatised by Claire Luckham. This bittersweet tale follows the fortunes of Fanny Logan and her eccentric aristocratic cousins, the Radletts, as they embark on disastrous love affairs and misconceived marriages while searching for Mr Right.Īdapted by Alan Melville. her delightful biography of Louis XV's chief mistress and a pair of fascinating programmes exploring her own unconventional life.

Collected here are adaptations of her two bestsellers, the semi-autobiographical An aristocrat and socialite, she mingled with the 'Bright Young Things' in interwar London, and went on to satirise their foibles in razor-sharp, wickedly funny prose. The eldest of the notorious Mitford sisters, Nancy Mitford was renowned for her comic novels of upper-class life.

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford