A Picture of Katherine Mansfield (1973)

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A Picture of Katherine Mansfield is a 1973 BBC television drama series starring Vanessa Redgrave as writer Katherine Mansfield, Jeremy Brett as her second husband John Middleton Murry, and Annette Crosbie as her life-long friend Ida Baker, known as L.M. The series consists of six fifty-minute parts each including episodes of Mansfield's life interwoven with adaptations of her short stories, dramatized by English novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Robin Chapman (1933–2020).

Original Release

05/01/1973

Cast

Name

Character

Vanessa Redgrave

Katherine / The Woman

Jeremy Brett

Murry / The Man

Phyllida Law

Linda Burnell / Mother / Mrs. Beauchamp / Mrs. Sheridan

Annette Crosbie

L. M. / The Friend / L.M.

Bruce Purchase

Stanley Burnell / Father / Mr. Sheridan

D. H. Lawrence

Olga

Gurdjieff

Kezia

Isabel

(see additional cast & crew)

#	Title	Air Date
1	Life Is the Only Cure for Life	Tuesday, 01 May 1973
2	Episode #1.2	Tuesday, 08 May 1973
3	Episode #1.3	Tuesday, 15 May 1973
4	Episode #1.4	Tuesday, 22 May 1973
5	Episode #1.5	Tuesday, 29 May 1973
6	Episode #1.6	Tuesday, 05 June 1973