More fun promised for Who and Torchwood

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The first episode of Shameless last night (Monday) had a small Who reference but it looks like the next one at 10.00pm has a huge one.

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A Patrick Troughton biography by his son Michael.

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Patrick Troughton, by his son - Michael Troughton

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Free audio Who from the Guardian and the Observer. Saturday's Guardian will have a CD of The Hounds of Artemis, written by James Goss and narrated by Matt Smith and Clare Corbett. Sunday's Observer will have The Ring Of Steel, written by Stephen Cole and read by Arthur Darvill.

Next week you will find out details on how to download free episodes from the Hornet's Nest audio series, starring Tom Baker and Richard Franklin.

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On next Saturday night on BBC2/HD at 9.30pm, a film adaptation of novelist Christopher Isherwood's autobiography, Christopher and His Kind
- starring Matt Smith as Isherwood, Lindsay Duncan (Adelaide Brooke/The Waters of Mars; on stage with Matt Smith in That Face) as Isherwood's mother Kathleen, Toby Jones (Dream Lord/Amy's Choice) as his friend Gerald Hamilton, and directed by Geoffrey Sax (Paul McGann's 1996 TVM)
BBC - BBC Two Programmes - Christopher and His Kind

The 'divinely decadent' Berlin cabaret scene is in full swing when a young and wide-eyed Christopher Isherwood arrives in the city to stay with his close friend and occasional lover, the poet WH Auden. To Isherwood's reserved English sensibility, the city's thriving gay subculture is thrilling and intoxicating. But Christopher soon finds himself heartbroken after the failure of a hopeless love affair, and so sets out on a process of self-discovery as he forges an identity and place for himself amidst the chaos of 1930s Berlin.

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90 minutes

Broadcasts
  1. Sat 19 Mar 2011, 21:30, BBC Two (except Northern Ireland (Analogue), Wales (Analogue))
  2. Sat 19 Mar 2011, 21:30, BBC HD

BBC - Christopher And His Kind

The hedonistic cabaret scene of Berlin in the Thirties is in full swing when wide-eyed young writer Christopher Isherwood arrives in the city, unable to speak a word of German.

To Isherwood's reserved English sensibility, the city's thriving gay subculture is thrilling and intoxicating, but he soon finds himself heartbroken after the failure of a hopeless love affair, and so sets out on a process of self-discovery.

Written by acclaimed playwright Kevin Elyot, this one-off drama, chronicling the formative years of Christopher Isherwood, stars Lindsay Duncan, Imogen Poots, Toby Jones and Douglas Booth with Matt Smith in the title role.

Imogen Poots plays Jean Ross, an aspiring actress and singer who provided Christopher with the inspiration for the Sally Bowles character of Cabaret fame; Toby Jones plays Gerald Hamilton, a peculiar man who provided the inspiration for the title character in the celebrated Isherwood novel Mr Norris Changes Trains; Pip Carter plays Wystan Auden, the famous poet with a droll sense of humour, who persuaded Christopher to join him in Berlin, and Douglas Booth plays Heinz, a street cleaner with whom Christopher falls in love.

Christopher And His Kind tells the story of how Isherwood escapes repressive English society and his suffocating relationship with his mother Kathleen (Lindsay Duncan) for the decadent and politically unstable world of pre-war Berlin.
Isherwood, who died in 1986, published Christopher and His Kind in 1976, covering the period 1929 to 1939, when he was mainly in Berlin.
His 1964 novel A Single Man was adapted by Tom Ford last year into a successful film with Colin Firth and Julianne Moore.

BBC - Press Office - New BBC Two drama, Christopher And His Kind
BBC - Press Office - Network TV Programme Information BBC Week 12 Christopher And His Kind feature – interview with Matt Smith
Christopher and His Kind (TV 2010) - IMDb
Christopher and His Kind (television adaptation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
I'll just wait for one you guys to post the clip afterwards :)
 
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