Lady Chatterley's Lover has been published in three versions. The story concerns a young married woman, the former Constance Reid (Lady Chatterley), whose upper class husband, Sir Clifford Chatterley, described as a handsome, well-built man, has been paralysed from the waist down due to a Great War injury. In addition to Clifford's physical limitations, his emotional neglect of Constance forces distance between the couple. Her emotional frustration leads her into an affair with the gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. The class difference between the couple highlights a major motif of the novel which is the unfair dominance of intellectuals over the working class. The novel
James Hawes on the "Lady Chatterley's Lover" obscenity trial of 1960, "The Chatterley Affair". This one-off drama for digital television channel BBC Four features "Doctor Who" star David Tennant as Richard Hoggart. It was one of the first of what would become an extremely successful run for single dramas on British television, often bringing big screen stars to individual and authored projects. "The Chatterley Affair" also won Best Single Drama in the same BAFTA awards as the Doctor Who success. Hawes was also announced in late 2005 as the producer and lead director of the forthcoming "Doctor Who" spin-off series "Torchwood" —