Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast was a fairy tale that Peri Brown once sarcastically compared Prince Vlad III — otherwise known as Dracula — and his brother Radu the Handsome to. (AUDIO: Son of the Dragon)

Tanya Adeola compared the old stone house in Shoreditch that cleaned up the mess on its own to Beauty and the Beast. (PROSE: The Stone House)

Behind the scenes

 * The parallel that Tanya Adeola makes to the story may be more specifically referencing Disney's 1991 animated adaptation, where the Beast's castle is inhabited by sentient household objects, formelly castle staff who were cursed along with their master.
 * A musical stage adaptation of the animated film debuted in 1994. Derek Griffiths, Rebecca Thornhill, and Richard Gauntlett were amoung the shows original West End cast when it began there in 1997.
 * Disney made a live-action remake of the animated film in 2017, where the ensemble cast included Dan Stevens as the titular beast, as well as Ian McKellen and Hattie Morahan.
 * In the Titan comic story A New Beginning, the Thirteenth Doctor's teapot aboard the TARDIS is identical, in all but colour, to, a character in the animated film.