E.M. FORSTER: HIS LONGEST JOURNEY DVD

Said to be E.M. Forster's own favourite of all his novels and the most autobiographical The Longest Journey was published in 1907 and is described by Forster as the one he is most glad to have written .

Forster wrote The Longest Journey in 1907, before his full adult life had started. The film reflects Forster s view that this book, above all his books, describes what he felt was to happen to him in his own life.

We trace Forster s growing recognition both his development as a writer and of his homosexuality and his need to initiate himself into his own true nature.

We learn of his lovers and his final long relationship with Bob Buckingham, the good-looking policeman, in whose wife s arms Forster died.

The Longest Journey is a book about the search for redemption in a creative life half lived and a creative life betrayed upon the altar of self-seeking convention. This is a modern story that sets out most clearly the premonitions that Forster continued to have about his own life.

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Review

"Featuring a wonderful array of highly engaged talking heads, it's a great piece of programming that illuminates its subject and makes you want to re-engage with his work" --The Daily Telegraph

"There are contributions from critics, as well as James Ivory and Helena Bonham Carter. A must for Forster-ites" --The Times

"A perceptive, and at times touching, examination of a great mind" --TV Times