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The story of a 19-century prostitute and the domestic lives of the Georgian populace are to reach TV screens in a series of commissions for BBC2 this year.
Michel Faber's Victorian-set novel The Crimson Petal and the White will be adapted into a four-part drama while historian Amanda Vickery's Behind Closed Doors (Yale University Press) is being made as a three-part series.
Lucinda Coxon has adapted Faber's novel for production company Origin Films. It follows the story of Sugar, a prostitute working in Victorian London. Vickery will go behind the scenes of Georgian homes in the series adapted from her prize-winning study of the era.
The channel has also commissioned "Christopher and His Kind", a 90-minute film about writer Christopher Isherwood, based on his 1976 memoir of the same name. "Doctor Who" star Matt Smith will play the writer, whose a Single Man (Vintage Classics) was recently made into an Oscar-winning film.
While Mary Beard, Cambridge Professor Classics and author of Pompeii (Profile) is also to present a documentary series on the natural disaster later this year.