EM Forster: His Longest Journey – Sky Arts

Writer EM Forster’s life and ground-breaking work are put under the spotlight in Sky Arts' EM Forster: His Longest Journey

Sky Arts’ EM Forster: His Longest Journey is an insightful profile about writer EM Forster, his background, life and loves, and makes a fascinating watch.

The stuff of classic period costume dramas (think Merchant Ivory films with Helena Bonham Carter and Emma Thompson, with his most successful novel being A Passage to India), Edward Morgan Foster was one of Britain’s great literary minds, and a liberal voice at a time when homosexuality was still outlawed in the early 20th century.

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E.M. Forster: His Longest Journey is a film about E M Forster&rsquo;s life. It is also the story of a special and largely unknown book by E M Forster called The Longest Journey, a book that describes Forster&rsquo;s own sense off what his life was to be. This book, above all his other books, describes what he felt his life was to be. — Sky Arts' EM Forster: His Longest Journey profiles one of out best-loved writers, Edward Morgan Forster

In fact, his own life could have been described as one of his more poignant works.

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But why did Forster give up on writing novels, just when he was at his peak?

A perceptive, and at times touching, examination of a great mind.

TV Times rating: ****