A Picture of Katherine Mansfield | |
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Genre | Drama |
Based on | The life and short stories of Katherine Mansfield |
Written by | Robin Chapman |
Directed by | Alan Cooke |
Starring | |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 6 |
Production | |
Producer | Rosemary Hill |
Running time | 50 minutes |
Production company | BBC |
Original release | |
Network | BBC Two |
Release | 1 May 5 June 1973 | –
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,[1][2] dramatized by English novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Robin Chapman (1933–2020).
The Mansfield short story adaptations in each of the six episodes in the series each have their own cast, and are as follows: