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Launching this year's TV Festival we are delighted to welcome Matthew Waterhouse, Doctor Who actor and Graham Greene fan, to introduce these Graham Greene short story adaptations.Please note, please book for both screenings to see all episodes:
Thursday 9 October, 11am screening: Two Gentle People
Two Gentle People is a gentle tale about two lonely middle-aged people who meet by chance in a Paris park and wonder whether they can find new life in each other.
Thursday 9 October, 7.30pm screening: Alas, Poor Maling and The Destructors
'Alas, Poor Maling,' adapted by Graham Greene himself, his only TV script, plus 'The Destructors', adapted by John (Rumpole) Mortimer and directed by Michael Apted, described by Greene as "Very good... they got innumerable telephone calls of complaint about it." It also stars a very young Phil Daniels, as seen in Quadrophenia and Blur's Parklife many years later...
At both screenings, Matthew will introduce these rarely seen episodes of the 1970s Thames TV series, Shades of Greene, which presented 18 adaptations of Greene's short stories, using stellar casts and the cream of TV scriptwriters. The script consultants were Hugh Greene, Graham's brother, (and ex-Director General of the BBC,) and George Markstein of The Prisoner and Danger Man.
Greene, one of the 20th century's major novelists and the screenwriter of The Third Man, widely regarded as the single greatest British film, disliked almost all dramatisations by other people of his work, but very much admired Shades of Greene, yet this unjustly neglected TV classic has never been repeated or appeared on any home video format.
About your host, Matthew Waterhouse
Matthew Waterhouse is an English actor and writer, best known as Adric, the travelling companion of the Fourth and Fifth Doctors in in Doctor Who, a character he has played across 45 years. He has also worked extensively in theatre and audio drama. He is the author of several novels and short stories, including two acclaimed Doctor Who audio novels, Watchers and Prisoners of London, and a memoir, Blue Box Boy.
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