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# Christopher and His Kind, BBC One, preview
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## Doctor Who's Matt Smith stars in a one-off drama which chronicles the
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formative years of American novelist Christopher Isherwood.
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![Christopher and His Kind: Matt Smith and Pip Carter star as writers
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Christopher Isherwood and WH Auden.][1]
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Christopher and His Kind: Matt Smith and Pip Carter star as writers
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Christopher Isherwood and WH Auden. Photo: BBC
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By Michael Hogan 5:48PM GMT 17 Mar 2011
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[Comments][2]
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**Christopher and His Kind **
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_Saturday, BBC Two, 9.30pm_
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A fine period drama chronicling the formative years of Christopher Isherwood.
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Matt Smith, the young actor best known for Doctor Who, stars as the aspiring
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writer escaping repressed English society for hedonistic, politically unstable
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Berlin in the 1930s. Despite being unable to speak a word of German, "Ishyvoo"
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discovers the decadent Weimar cabaret scene and becomes intoxicated by the
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city's thriving gay subculture. "To me, Berlin meant boys," he gasps. Soon
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heart-broken by a doomed affair, he sets out to discover himself - and the
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writing voice of his classic 1930s novels.
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Scripted by acclaimed playwright Kevin Elyot (My Night with Reg), it boasts a
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strong supporting cast, including Lindsay Duncan as his domineering mother,
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Pip Carter as his friend and fellow writer WH Auden and Douglas Booth as the
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street cleaner with whom Isherwood falls in love. It's handsomely shot,
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lovingly recreating the period, but with a twinkling, tongue-in-cheek feel -
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not to mention some lusty sex scenes - that stops it becoming too misty-eyed.
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A success, then, and Smith excels in the lead role, all floppy hair, tweedy
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suits and mischievous eccentricities.
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## Related Articles
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* [Christopher and His Kind, BBC Two, review][3]
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18 Mar 2011
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18 Mar 2011
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* [Christopher Isherwood: a great literary outsider][6]
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17 Mar 2011
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