Starring: Julian Morris, Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, James McArdle, David Gyasi
Director: Michael Samuels
Running Time: 120 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: September 18th 2017 (UK)

It may be 2017 and gay marriage is legal in the UK, but it’s still incredibly rare for a mainstream British TV show to focus on gay characters and stories, especially a Sunday night BBC period mini-series. However, we got one with Man In An Orange Shirt, one of the centrepieces of the Gay Britannia season, marking 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of gay sex in England and Wales.

It’s also a somewhat unusual two-parter, as the first episode is set almost exclusively in the 1940s and 1950s, while the second episode leaps forward into the modern day. [Read more…]