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|  | |     | | * The schedules feature an ever greater number of follow-up documentaries. Tomorrow night - for example - BBC1 screens The Boy Can't Help It, a sequel - thirteen years on - about John Davidson, who suffers from Tourette's Syndrome.
We discussed the genre with film-maker Roger Graef and BBC Executive producer Tessa Livingstone.
The Boy Can't Help is broadcast tomorrow at 9pm on BBC1.
* Wes Anderson's new film, The Royal Tennenbaums, like his previous film Rushmore, has a teenage playwright as a central character. That - we suggested to Wes Anderson when he came into the Front Row studio - felt like a reference to himself as an adolescent
The Royal Tennenbaums opens on Friday 15th March, cert 15 in London and then nationwide the following week.
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*Sally Beamish and Janice Galloway talked about their new opera Monster, that is based on Mary shelley's Frankenstein.
Scottish Opera's new production of Monster has its world premiere on Thursday 28th March at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow. It travels to Edinburgh for a performance on April 18th, and will be at the Brighton festival on May 10th.
*The RSPB is launching a range of ringtones replicating the calls of 38 birds, from the blackbird to the rough-legged buzzard. And a new CD features artists and musicians composing their ideal ringtrones.Peter Per-feedees reflected on the upwardly-mobile generation.
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