Radio Times, 17-23 November 2001, by David Roberts.
"Location Location Location: Hot News From the RAC Club: 
The Heat is On"
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It was 29 degrees Celsius/84 degrees Fahrenheit outside on 
Pall Mall, but down in the RAC Club's Edwardian basement, it 
was far, far hotter. Here, on a scorching late-summer day, 
the cast and crew of BBC2's forthcoming comedy drama 
*Manchild* were on a schedule that meant the day's filming 
had to be, wait for it, in a sauna. The production notes 
describe the make-up simply as "sweat."

Dressed in no more than towels, and maintaining an admirable 
bonhomie despite the heat, were stars Nigel Havers, Anthony 
Head (back in Britain after his *Buffy* adventures), Ray 
Burdis and Don Warrington, best known for his role in 
*Rising Damp.*

Due on our screens next year, *Manchild* follows four 
successful fortysomethings who decide to face up to the 
immiment prospect of turning 50 with a major hedonistic 
flourish.

The grand dining rooms of the London club were also used in 
the filming. A building that has spent a century dedicated 
to leisure and pleasure couldn't be a more suitable setting 
for a drama about men who have decided that life can be a 
very fat, juicy oyster.

Just as well, then, that the club's members were, as one of 
the staff put it, "semi-understanding" about BBC outsiders 
walking about the place in slightly less than regulation 
"jacket, shirt and tie (at all times)."



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