The later life and death of T E Lawrence

It’s a story mired in conspiracy claims and counter claims, laced with cloak and dagger cover ups and covert cunning, yet eighty five years after the event the death of T E Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, continues to touch nerves.

Now, a new feature film Lawrence: After Arabia examines the events that led up to Lawrence’s death on 19 May 1935 from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash near Bovington six days earlier. Was it an accident or an assassination? Why do witness statements conflict? Who would gain enough from his death to have ordered it?

A moving story

On the face of it they have little in common – she’s a woman in her fifties with early-onset Parkinson’s; he’s a teenager far from home who doesn’t fit in with the world around him. She’s trying to come to terms with her range of conscious movements being slowly eroded; his overload of feelings finds Read More…