London, Jul 17 (PTI) A new two-part gay love story is coming to BBC One, after the broadcaster ordered the drama miniseries from novelist Patrick Gale.
The best-selling author will provide the screenplay for "Man in an Orange Shirt", reported Digital Spy.
The two hour-long episodes will follow the relationships of two sets of gay lovers, 60 years apart, which are linked by a painting that holds a telling secret.
Patrick Gale said, "Man in an Orange Shirt is the most exciting screen project I've worked on to date: an original drama exploring strands of gay male experience since the 1940s.
"It has been such a privilege to be given such an open brief and then allowed to run with it. I don't want to give too much away but after much experimenting, we've ended up with two hour-long films, one set in the 1940s and 50s one set in the violently contrasted present, one depicting a love story made impossible by pressures from society, one a love story nearly derailed by the long-term fall-out from the 1940s story.
"I hope (Man in an Orange Shirt will) appeal equally to straight and gay viewers but also that they'll leave either side feeling challenged about things they take for granted."
Gale is known for his novels "Notes from an Exhibition" and "A Place Called Winter.
