15/06/2025
The television network BBC 4, one of the public service broadcasters serious channels, has retransmitted a classic piece of AIDS era storytelling. On 15th June, it broadcast The Lost Language of Cranes, a 1992 adaptation of gay novelist David Leavitt's 1986 novel, which was equally acclaimed. Examining silence, coming out and coming together as families, the piece remains an important part of our shared gay culture. Before the television adaptation was rebroadcast, a recent interview with lead actor Brian Cox was transmitted, with reflections on the reactions to the original movie and how he felt about those people who were themselves working on the film and affected by the AIDS crisis of the eighties. "Lost Language of Cranes" is still in print and the DVD is available as well.
