The Forests of the Night the war as it really was, as James Kirkup observed, an "acid portrait of those who played at being members of the [French] Resistance". The novel's theme and title come from the opening lines to William Blake's poem "The Tyger": "Tiger, tiger, burning bright - in the forests of the night." "The Forests of the Night" was translated in 1951 into English by Nora Wydenbruck; it has not been re-printed since. Francis is the son of the Comte de Balansun, whose family resides in the French town of Saint-Clar, near the Pyrenees. Francis, in the beginning of the novel, skips
In the Forest of the Night In the Forest of the Night "In the Forest of the Night" is the tenth episode of the eighth series of the British science fiction television programme "Doctor Who", written by Frank Cottrell-Boyce and directed by Sheree Folkson. The episode stars Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, and Samuel Anderson. It was broadcast on 25 October 2014 and received mixed reviews from critics. Clara Oswald and Danny Pink chaperone several Coal Hill students on an overnight stay at the London Zoological Museum, and wake up to find all of London and the rest of the world have been covered by large forests.