The television film of Shadowlands, broadcast in December 1985, went on to win a BAFTA. The latest incarnation is a West End production of the Shadowlands play originally staged at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2019. Raised as a Roman Catholic, Mr Nicholson initially had no time for C. S Lewis, sharing his mother’s view that the Narnia author was a “drippy Protty”. C. S. Lewis, his brother, Warnie [Warren], and Joy Davidman are all real people: the characters use their names. Hugh Bonneville, reprising his role of C. S Lewis from Chichester, read theology at Cambridge.