Chatterley to shock again in BBC drama

A writer renowned for his "sexed up" TV adaptations of literary classics has admitted that his latest work could be the most explicit yet

Andrew Davies has included full-frontal male nude scenes in The Chatterley Affair, a part-fictionalised account of the 1960 obscenity trial over DH Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, which will be on BBC4 this month before transferring to BBC2.

In the drama, two jurors, played by Rafe Spall and Louise Delamere, begin a sexual relationship inspired by the book.

At a preview screening last night, Davies, 69, admitted: "I think it will shock quite a lot of people."

After the lesbian sex scenes in his Tipping The Velvet, Davies's wife persuaded him that "on the basis of fairness, we should have a good-looking young man with all his clothes off".