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The Last Picture Show from 2021-09-30T15:31
Francine Stock and Antonia Quirke co-present the final edition of The Film Programme. They discuss the future of cinema in the age of streaming, and hear from David Oyelowo, Matt Damon, Rebecca ...
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Chris Menges, Local Hero from 2021-09-23T15:31
With Antonia Quirke
Oscar winning cinematographer and director Chris Menges takes us behind the scenes of Local Hero, The Mission and Kes, and reveals how he ended up in a Zanzibar prison ...
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Emma Thomas: How Batman Began from 2021-09-20T08:35
With Antonia Quirke
Producer Emma Thomas reveals the conversation she had with partner Christopher Nolan that led to the making of Batman Begins, the film the changed the course of the sup...
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Mark Gatiss: Anthony Hopkins superfan from 2021-09-14T09:21
Mark Gatiss tells Antonia Quirke what it was like to work with his hero Anthony Hopkins on The Father, and how he persuaded him to reprise a famous scene from one of his classic films as a birth...
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Hossein Amini on Heat from 2021-08-26T15:30
In the final edition of Moving Image, Francine Stock talks to Hossein Amini about the film that has obsessed him since the first time he saw it in 1995. Heat was the first film to bring Robert De N...
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Jude Law, Ayten Amin and Mark Jenkin from 2021-08-19T15:30
Jude Law talks about his latest release The Nest, a suspenseful family drama set in Surrey in the 1980s, what he really likes about making movies and what acting in Contagion taught him about pande...
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Alvin Rakoff from 2021-08-12T15:32
With Antonia Quirke 94 year old director Alvin Rakoff talks about giving Sean Connery his big break, why his friend Peter Sellers wired his home for sound and what it was like directing Laurence O...
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Juliet Stevenson on Truly, Madly, Deeply from 2021-08-05T15:30
Juliet Stevenson revisits a moving and tearful scene from Truly, Madly, Deeply which broke new ground in the portrayal of grief. Matt Damon and director Tom McCarthy talk about researching for Damo...
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Francis Lee on My Beautiful Laundrette from 2021-07-29T15:30
My Beautiful Laundrette, written by Hanif Kureishi and directed by Stephen Frears, was one of the early films produced for Channel 4. First screened in 1985, it tells the story of a young British ...
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Bruce Robinson: Withnail and me from 2021-07-22T15:30
With Antonia Quirke Antonia reveals the favourite phone box scenes as chosen by Film Programme listeners and talks to writer/director Bruce Robinson about the phone box in Withnail And I that has ...
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Carol Morley on Muriel Box from 2021-07-19T15:50
With Antonia Quirke Director Carol Morley asked Film Programme listeners if any of them knew Muriel Box, Britain's most prolific female director and arguably most neglected. And she heard from Mur...
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Thomas Vinterberg from 2021-07-01T15:30
With Antonia Quirke Festen director Thomas Vinterberg discusses the personal tragedy behind his latest film, Another Round.Friendship's Death is a 1987 movie about a journalist and an alien who me...
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Iron Curtain Directors from 2021-06-24T15:30
With Francine Stock What was it like working behind the Iron Curtain, when every dot and comma of a script had to be passed by the censor. Francine delves into the archives and hears from Milos Fo...
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Ousmane Sembene from 2021-06-10T15:30
With Antonia Quirke. Ousmane Sembene has been called the father of African Film, single-handedly starting a movie industry in Senegal. As his 1968 film Mandabi is re-released, Samba Gadjigo and J...
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Ben Whishaw from 2021-06-03T15:30
With Antonia Quirke Ben Whishaw reveals why he went up to complete strangers on Tottenham High Road for his latest film Surge, and why nobody seemed to recognise him.After Love is the story of a M...
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Toby Jones from 2021-05-27T15:30
With Francine Stock Actor and writer Toby Jones discusses the film that still resonates with him almost 30 years after he first saw it, In The Soup. Alexandre Rockwell's comedy beat Reservoir Dogs...
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Cinema: open for business from 2021-05-20T15:30
With Antonia Quirke As cinemas opened for the first time in 5 months, have concerns about the so-called Indian variant made people think twice about visiting their local picture palace ? Antonia t...
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Cinema: The Comeback from 2021-05-13T15:30
With Antonia Quirke. As cinemas are set to re-open on May 17th, Antonia Quirke visits The Uckfield Picture House that has been run by the same family for over six decades. She talks to its owner K...
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How I directed a movie with Parkinson's Disease from 2021-05-06T15:31
With Antonia Quirke Director Brett Harvey reveals how he made a feature film Long Way Back just after he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. And how he managed to direct the movie sufferi...
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Judi, Nicole, Sandra, Kristin, Cate, Fanny, Anna and Francine from 2021-04-29T15:31
With Francine Stock Francine considers the changing role of the actress in Hollywood and European cinema, from muse to producer. She hears from Judi Dench, Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, Kristin S...
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Mark Jenkin&The Köttings from 2021-04-22T15:31
With Antonia Quirke The Film Programme has exclusive behind the scenes access to some of the most exciting and innovative film-makers in this country. For the past year, Mark Jenkin has been recor...
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Chloe Zhao from 2021-04-15T15:31
With Antonia Quirke Nomadland won the BAFTA and Golden Globe for Best Film and is hotly tipped to win the Best Picture Oscar too. Director Chloe Zhao reveals how she cast many of her actors on a r...
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Antonia and the stars from 2021-04-01T15:30
Antonia Quirke considers the phenomenon and future of the so called film junket, the movie publicity process whereby film stars are serially interviewed in expensive hotels by a succession of film...
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Rogue Males from 2021-03-25T16:30
Francine Stock talks to Christopher Plummer, Warren Beatty, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Jack Nicholson and Peter O'Toole about their long careers in the movies and how a maverick attitude has he...
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Francis Lee on Ammonite from 2021-03-18T16:30
Antonia Quirke talks to Francis Lee, director of Ammonite, starring Kate Winslet, about the palaeontologist Mary Anning. They discuss his controversial imagining of a lesbian relationship for Annin...
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Location, Location, Location from 2021-03-11T16:31
With Antonia Quirke Mark Jenkin takes us on a scouting trip for his new film, Enys Men, going deep into an abandoned mine in Cornwall.Production designer Suzie Davies explains how she re-created t...
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The World of the Coens from 2021-03-04T16:31
With Antonia Quirke Antonia presents a guide to the universe of The Coen Brothers with help from the siblings themselves. From Film Programme interviews over the last twenty years, Joel and Ethan ...
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Kevin Macdonald on The Battle Of Algiers from 2021-02-25T16:31
With Francine Stock Director Kevin Macdonald reveals the influence of The Battle Of Algiers on his latest drama, The Mauritanian, the true story of Mohamedou Ould Salahi, who was held at Guantanam...
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Seamus McGarvey's Lockdown Diary from 2021-02-18T16:31
With Antonia Quirke Cinematographer Seamus McGarvey has had an eventful 12 months, from being told to pack his bags overnight and get a flight to America to work on a major Hollywood movie, to cat...
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Christopher Lee on The Lord Of The Rings from 2021-02-11T16:31
With Antonia Quirke This year sees the 20th anniversary of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. To mark the occasion, Antonia revisits her encounter with Christopher Lee in 2001 and hears from London Vo...
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Angela Allen from 2021-02-04T16:30
Script supervisor Angela Allen on what it was really like to work with Marilyn Monroe, Orson Welles and John Huston, and why Monroe believed she was having an affair with husband Arthur Miller. W...
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Leslie Caron from 2021-01-28T16:30
With Francine Stock Francine reflects on the career of Leslie Caron, who is 90 this year, and hears about her adventures in La La Land with Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire and Cary Grant.
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Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets from 2021-01-14T16:31
With Antonia Quirke Brothers Bill and Turner Ross discuss their film Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, set in the last night of a bar on the outskirts of Los Angeles, that resides somewhere between fict...
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Ellen Burstyn from 2021-01-07T16:29
With Antonia Quirke. Legendary actress Ellen Burstyn talks about Pieces Of A Woman, the film that might make her the oldest person to be nominated for an Academy Award in the history of the Oscars...
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Richard Lester from 2020-12-31T16:30
With Francine Stock Francine rifles through The Film Programme archives to hear from director Richard Lester about working with The Beatles on A Hard Day's Night and Help ! And why he didn't work ...
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Christopher Nolan&Tom Shone from 2020-12-24T20:30
With Antonia Quirke Director Christopher Nolan and author Tom Shone discuss Tom's book The Nolan Variations, and the influence of artists Escher and Francis Bacon on movies like Inception and The ...
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Lesley Manville from 2020-12-17T16:31
With Antonia Quirke Lesley Manville reveals how her Oscar nomination for Phantom Thread led to her latest role as a psychotic American matriarch in Let Him GoA tale of two Picturehouses over one y...
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David Byrne from 2020-12-10T16:31
With Antonia Quirke David Byrne discusses the film version of his Broadway musical American Utopia which was directed by Spike Lee. And he reveals why he's a changed man since his last concert mov...
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Tom Burke on Orson Welles from 2020-12-03T16:28
With Antonia Quirke Actor Tom Burke reveals how he perfected the voice of Orson Welles for his new film Mank, about the making of Citizen Kane.Rob Savage explains how he made a horror movie called...
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Heaven's Gate from 2020-11-26T16:30
With Francine Stock Heaven's Gate is a symbol of Hollywood excess and financial mismanagement. One of the biggest disasters in film history, Michael Cimino's epic is said to have killed the studio...
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Ron Howard from 2020-11-19T16:30
With Antonia Quirke. Ron Howard talks about the challenges of making films about real people, and what it was like to act opposite John Wayne and discovering the secret of his famously laconic act...
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Sarah Gavron from 2020-11-17T16:49
With Francine Stock In this month's edition of Moving Image, director Sarah Gavron talks about the unlikely film that influenced Rocks, her realistic drama about the life of a teenager in East Lon...
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Being A Human Person from 2020-11-17T16:45
With Antonia Quirke. When Fred Scott began his documentary on the making of Roy Andersson's About Endlessness, he had no idea about the drama behind the scenes that he was about to uncover.When Ma...
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A Bout De Souffle from 2020-11-12T16:30
With Antonia Quirke. Steve James, the director of Hoop Dreams, looks back at his ground-breaking documentary about the lives of two African-American teenagers as they try to realise their dreams o...
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Romola Garai from 2020-10-15T15:30
With Antonia Quirke. This month sees the release of six horror movies directed by women. And there are many more in production and waiting release. One of them is Amulet, directed by Romola Garai....
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Women and Horror from 2020-10-08T15:35
With Antonia Quirke This month sees the release of five horror movies directed by women. The first one out of the blocks is Saint Maud, written and directed by Rose Glass. She tells Antonia why sh...
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London Film Festival from 2020-10-01T15:30
With Antonia Quirke. Tricia Tuttle, the director of The London Film Festival, reveals all the challenges that she faces organising the festival during a global pandemic.Actor Patrick Kennedy descr...
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Alejandro Jodorowsky from 2020-09-24T15:30
With Francine Stock. Controversial cult film-maker Alejandro Jodorowsky is almost as famous for a film he didn't make as he is for the films he did. The Chilean director pioneered a new type of cu...
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Sally Potter from 2020-09-10T15:31
With Antonia Quirke. Writer/director Sally Potter discusses her new feature film The Roads Not Taken and why she dedicated it to her late brother Nic. She describes her experience of the coronavir...
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I Am Spartacus (Remix) from 2020-08-27T15:30
With Francine Stock "I Am Spartacus" is one of the most famous lines in film history and Francine tells the turbulent backstory of that line and how it involved the so-called Hollywood witch-hunt,...
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Earl Cameron from 2020-08-20T15:30
With Francine Stock Earl Cameron, who died earlier this year aged 102, was one of the pioneers of British cinema, one of the first black actors to get a starring role in a British movie. Francine ...
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Cruel Summer from 2020-08-13T15:30
With Ben Bailey Smith With no blockbusters and several heatwaves, it's been a cruel summer for our cinemas. The Uckfield Picture House in Sussex is feeling the heat. With only dozens of customers ...
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The Class System And The British Film Industry from 2020-08-06T15:30
With Ben Bailey Smith Actor and writer Ben Bailey Smith has worked on numerous film sets and rarely hears a working class accent unless it's an upper class actor attempting the Cockney dialect or ...
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Luc Roeg on Walkabout from 2020-07-23T15:30
With Antonia Quirke Film producer Luc Roeg talks about his only acting role, as a seven year old boy alongside Jenny Agutter in Walkabout. He reveals what it was like to be directed by his dad, Ni...
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Christopher Nolan on Memento from 2020-07-16T15:32
With Antonia Quirke As cinemas across the world are pinning their box-office hopes on Christopher Nolan's Tenet this summer, Antonia looks again at the director's breakthrough hit Memento, and tra...
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Claire Denis and Mark Jenkin from 2020-07-09T15:30
With Antonia Quirke Director Mark Jenkin sends his latest audio diary as he embarks on a new project, while he waits another year to startshooting his follow-up to the award-winning Bait. This we...
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Film-makers in Lockdown from 2020-07-02T15:30
With Antonia Quirke What does a film-maker do when they can't make a film ? Three directors share their audio diaries, in which they chart their lives in lockdown.Mark Jenkin was about to start sh...
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Ray Harryhausen from 2020-06-26T15:45
With Francine Stock June 29th is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ray Harryhausen, the special effects supremo who gave us a seven headed hydra, a a sword fighting skeleton and a lizard from ...
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Spike Lee, Boots Riley and Reinaldo Marcus Green from 2020-06-18T15:30
With Antonia Quirke The Film Programme's recommendation for films to stream this week are three movies that shed some light on race relations in America. The three films are: BlacKkKlansman, Sorry...
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Marjane Satrapi from 2020-06-11T15:33
With Antonia Quirke Persepolis director Marjane Satrapi talks about Radioactive, her biopic of Marie Curie, and explains why she also wanted to recognise the work of Marie's husband Pierre.The sun...
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Derek Jarman's The Garden from 2020-06-04T15:30
With Antonia Quirke Antonia's recommendation for a film to watch while the cinemas are closed is The Garden by Derek Jarman.The garden itself and the adjacent cottage have just been saved for the ...
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British New Wave from 2020-05-28T15:30
With Francine Stock This week's lockdown choice is not a movie, but a whole movement, the British New Wave. Francine picks four kitchen sink classics - Saturday Night And Sunday Morning, A Taste O...
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Agnes Varda from 2020-05-21T15:30
With Antonia Quirke. This week The Film Programme recommends not just one lockdown movie, but a whole life-time's. The life and work of Agnes Varda, including masterpieces Cleo From 5 To 7, The Be...
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Terence Stamp from 2020-05-17T22:30
With Antonia Quirke. For this week's film club, Antonia recommends Terence Stamp's movies from the 1960s and hears from the man himself about celebrity, meeting his idols and why he left the film ...
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There Will Be Blood from 2020-05-10T22:32
With Antonia Quirke This week's recommendation for a film to watch in lockdown is There Will Be Blood. Antonia hears from director Paul Thomas Anderson, stars Daniel Day Lewis and Paul Dano and co...
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Raging Bull from 2020-05-03T22:31
With Francine Stock The Film Programme's recommendation for a film to watch in self isolation this week is Raging Bull. Editor Thelma Schoonmaker and director Martin Scorsese guide Francine throug...
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Women In Love from 2020-04-26T22:30
Antonia Quirke plunders the Film Programme archive and hears from the makers of Women In Love: Glenda Jackson, Ken Russell and cinematographer Billy Williams And there's another round of Pitch Bat...
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Night and the City from 2020-04-23T12:36
With Antonia Quirke As part of The Film Programme's guide to what to watch during self isolation, Antonia presents a special on the 1950 crime drama Night And The City. She plunders the Film Progr...
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I Am Spartacus from 2020-04-12T22:30
With Francine Stock. "I Am Spartacus" is one of the most famous lines in film history and Francine tells the backstory of that line and how involved the so-called Hollywood witch-hunt. She hears f...
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Andrew Kotting from 2020-04-05T22:30
With Antonia Quirke. Before the national lockdown, Antonia went to Hastings to visit film-maker Andrew Kotting just as he discovered that cinemas were shutting down and his latest film The Whalebo...
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19/03/2020 from 2020-03-19T16:32
The latest releases, the hottest stars and the leading directors, plus news and insights from the film world.
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And Then We Danced from 2020-03-12T16:31
With Antonia Quirke In November 2019, far right protesters tried to stop the premiere of Georgia's first LGBTQ film And Then We Danced. They fought with riot police and attacked cinema-goers in Ti...
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John Boorman from 2020-03-05T16:30
With Antonia Quirke. John Boorman looks back at a career that includes Deliverance, Hope And Glory and Point Blank. He reveals why he's still surprised that films get made, or at least finished, g...
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Justin Kurzel on Ned Kelly and Wake In Fright from 2020-02-27T16:30
With Francine Stock. Justin Kurzel, the director of True History Of The Kelly Gang, talks about the movie that has been a major influence on his film-making. Wake In Fright was made in 1971 and wa...
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Jessica Hausner; Portrait of a Lady on Fire from 2020-02-20T16:30
Her performance in Little Joe won Emily Beecham best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival last year. Also starring Ben Whishaw it is a scifi take on the dangers of genetic engineering in flowe...
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Ken Russell's Dance of the Seven Veils from 2020-02-13T16:34
With Antonia Quirke Ken Russell's wife Lisi Tribble Russell explains why Dance Of The Seven Veils, his film about Richard Strauss, is finally going to be seen 50 years after it was banned.In a new...
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Bong Joon-ho on Parasite from 2020-02-06T16:30
With Antonia Quirke. Director Bong Joon-ho talks about his Oscar winning Korean thriller Parasite, which has been a surprise hit in the United States. And he revealsthe debt of gratitude his film ...
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Seamus McGarvey on A Matter Of Life And Death from 2020-01-30T16:30
With Francine Stock. Award winning cinematographer Seamus McGarvey talks about the film that is a continuing influence on his work, A Matter Of Life And Death, and about his friendship with the mo...
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The Lighthouse from 2020-01-23T16:32
With Antonia Quirke Director Robert Eggers and Willem Dafoe discuss one of the most unusual Hollywood movies of this year or any other. The tale of two drunken lighthouse-keepers, the film is alre...
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The Man Who Invented British Cinema from 2020-01-09T16:30
With Antonia Quirke. Chemical engineer Robert Paul was an unlikely film pioneer. But after a chance encounter in his chemist's shop, he went on to invent revolutionary movie cameras and projectors...
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Taika Waititi from 2020-01-02T16:30
With Antonia Quirke. Actor/director Taika Waititi talks about his World War II drama Jojo Rabbit and what it was like to direct a film dressed as Adolf Hitler.In the finale of Pitch Battle, Lizzie...
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Frank Cottrell-Boyce on Local Hero from 2019-12-26T16:35
With Francine Stock. In another edition of Moving Image, writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce reveals the huge impact that the film Local Hero had on his family and his life. And receives a surprise phone ...
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Florence Pugh from 2019-12-19T16:35
With Antonia Quirke. Florence Pugh reveals why her characterisation of Amy in Little Women is so different from the numerous adaptations that have gone before, and why it's particularly ironic tha...
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My Crazy Year from 2019-12-12T16:30
With Antonia Quirke Two directors look back at their crazy year. Mark Jenkin’s Bait has been described as a modern masterpiece. Shot in 16mm black and white on a hand-cranked camera, this tale of ...
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Where To Begin With... Ken Loach from 2019-12-04T05:38
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Tim Robey and Caitlin Benedict present a start-up guide to Ken Loach
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Simon Beaufoy from 2019-11-28T16:30
With Francine Stock "In screenwriting terms, it's a disaster. And yet, as a film, it's a piece of magic." Oscar winning screenwriter Simon Beaufoy on why Terrence Malick's Days Of Heaven breaks al...
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Emma Thompson from 2019-11-14T16:30
With Antonia Quirke Emma Thompson has written 6 films in which she also stars. Last Christmas is the latest. She explains why she sometimes has to bite her tongue when actors deliver her lines in ...
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Werner Herzog from 2019-11-07T16:30
With Antonia Quirke. Werner Herzog talks about meeting Mikhail Gorbachev and reflects on the cinema of awe, his grudge with Gunter Grass, and drunken slugs.Writer Paul Laverty discusses the resear...
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Rebecca O'Brien from 2019-10-31T16:30
With Francine Stock. Producer Rebecca O'Brien, who has collaborated with Ken Loach on 19 films, discusses the movie that inspired her to join the industry - The Conversation. While watching Franci...
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Where To Begin With... Rosalind Russell from 2019-10-28T05:44
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey tell Caitlin Benedict all about Rosalind Russell
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Francois Ozon from 2019-10-24T15:31
With Antonia Quirke By The Grace Of God director Francois Ozon reveals how he had to make the film under a different name so that the Catholic Church wouldn't know that he was secretly making an e...
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Singin' In The Rain (Reprise) from 2019-10-17T15:32
With Antonia Quirke As Singin' In The Rain returns to cinemas, Antonia goes behind the scenes of this famous musical with Gene Kelly's widow Patricia Ward Kelly and hears from fans Sir Richard Eyr...
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The London Film Festival from 2019-10-10T15:30
Antonia Quirke and Caitlin Benedict go behind the scenes of this year's London Film Festival, and discover how an award at a festival can change a director's life, and why the festival team had to ...
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Walter Murch on Apocalypse Now from 2019-10-03T15:29
With Antonia Quirke Editor Walter Murch takes Antonia on a journey to the heart of Apocalypse NowLinda Grant pitches a memoir about the Beat Generation as a a suitable case for the movie treatment...
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Asif Kapadia from 2019-09-26T15:32
With Francine Stock Asif Kapadia talks about the film that influenced Amy, Diego Maradona and The Warrior. He explains how a lightbulb went on above his head when he first saw the Vietnamese gangs...
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Where to begin with... Tarkovsky from 2019-09-23T04:00
Where does a film novice start with an art cinema giant like Andrei Tarkovsky? Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey are here to help Caitlin Benedict discover his work.
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Kenneth More from 2019-09-20T14:12
On the anniversary of his birthday, Kenneth More is remembered by his wife Angela Douglas and Nick Pourgourides, the founder of the official site dedicated to the movies of the actor who was the h...
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Midnight Cowboy from 2019-09-12T15:29
With Antonia Quirke John Schlesinger's partner Michael Childers takes us behind the scenes of Midnight Cowboy and reveals how he persuaded Andy Warhol to take part and the shocking reason why the ...
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The secret life of the stills photographer from 2019-09-05T15:29
With Antonia Quirke What exactly does a stills photographer do on a film set ? Keith Bernstein, whose CV includes American Sniper and Argo, reveals the secrets of his trade.Director Edward Watts r...
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Mark Jenkin on Derek Jarman's The Garden from 2019-08-29T15:29
With Francine Stock Mark Jenkin talks about the influence of Derek Jarman's home-made movie The Garden on his DIY film Bait, which is released this week.
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Where to Begin With... Pedro Almodovar from 2019-08-22T15:29
With Raifa Rafiq Raifa Rafiq, of the Mostly Lit podcast, hosts three summer specials called Where To Begin With...In the third edition, she enlists the help of critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim ...
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Where to Begin With... Tilda Swinton from 2019-08-15T15:32
With Raifa Rafiq. In a series of three summer specials, Raifa Rafiq, from the Mostly Lit podcast, hosts a new series called Where To Begin With...In part two, she enlists the help of critics Tim R...
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Where to Begin With... Quentin Tarantino from 2019-08-08T15:29
Raifa Rafiq, of the Mostly Lit podcast, hosts three summer specials called Where To Begin With... In the first edition, she enlists the help of critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey to find ou...
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Who Are Children's Movies Really For ? from 2019-08-01T15:30
With Antonia Quirke Do children’s movies offer a crash course in film genres, does Rango provide an entrée into westerns, for instance ? Neil Brand believes they do, but Larushka Ivan-Zadeh is mo...
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Moira Buffini on Stalker from 2019-07-25T15:29
With Francine Stock. Moira Buffini, the writer of Byzantium and the latest Jane Eyre adaptation, talks about the film that has been a major influence on her career - Tarkovsky's Stalker, the scien...
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How a Low Budget Movie From Senegal Influenced Beyoncé from 2019-07-18T15:29
With Antonia Quirke Touki Bouki, a low budget movie from Senegal made in 1973, had a new lease of life when Beyoncé and Jay-Z paid homage to it in a famous publicity still. Gaylene Gould explains ...
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How Jaws Changed My Life from 2019-07-11T15:29
With Antonia Quirke. Shark expert Gareth Fraser explains how his life was changed by watching Jaws at a very tender age.Director Jim Jarmusch presents his guide to zombie movies and explains why ...
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Don't Look Now from 2019-07-04T15:29
With Antonia Quirke. Cinematographer Tony Richmond talks about Don't Look Now and reveals the truth behind one of cinema's most famous sex scenes: did Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland really m...
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Danny Boyle from 2019-06-27T15:29
With Francine Stock. Danny Boyle talks about The Beatles' documentary Let It Be, which was the inspiration for his new film Yesterday. Danny discusses The Beatles, plagiarism, nostalgia, litigatio...
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Midnight Sun Film Festival from 2019-06-20T15:29
Antonia Quirke and Caitlin Benedict visit the Midnight Sun Film Festival in Lapland, where the sun shines for 24 hours in summer and films are shown every hour of the day. There they speak to Iran...
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Frank Cottrell Boyce from 2019-06-13T15:30
With Antonia Quirke Writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce talks about his Scrabble-based drama Sometimes, Always, Never and reveals why the film took 12 years to go from script to screen.Neil Brand continue...
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Asif Kapadia on Diego Maradona from 2019-06-06T15:29
With Antonia Quirke Asif Kapadia, the director of Amy and Senna, discusses his latest documentary, Diego Maradona, and reveals why he's never wanted to touch anyone more than he wanted to touch th...
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Moving Image: Paul Franklin on Alien from 2019-05-30T15:29
Visual effects artist Paul Franklin on 1979's Alien, and its influence on his Oscar winning work on Inception and Interstellar. Francine Stock also hears from Alien's producer Ivor Powell, editor ...
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Olivia Wilde from 2019-05-23T15:29
With Antonia Quirke. Actor turned director Olivia Wilde talks about her debut feature a high school comedyBooksmart, and reveals why she asked her two leads to live together before they started fi...
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Mads Mikkelsen and Claire Denis from 2019-05-09T15:29
With Antonia Quirke. Mads Mikkelsen reveals why his training as a ballet dancer and gymnast helped him to play a plane crash survivor in Arctic, which was shot in the frozen wastes of Iceland duri...
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Rebecca Lenkiewicz from 2019-05-02T15:29
With Antonia Quirke. Writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz talks about Colette, the true story of the author who had to use her husband's name to publish her novels. And she reveals the difference between wri...
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Maria Djurkovic from 2019-04-25T15:30
With Francine Stock. Maria Djurkovic, the award winning production designer of The Hours, Billy Elliot and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, reveals the film that's been a major influence on her caree...
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Yentl reunion, Styx from 2019-04-18T15:35
Antonia Quirke reunites three cast members of Barbra Streisand's cult classic Yentl - Kerry Shale, Danny Brainin and Gary Brown. And in a radio exclusive, they sing the song that was cut from the f...
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Paul Laverty: From Daniel Blake to Carlos Acosta; Secrets of The Shining from 2019-04-11T15:29
With Antonia Quirke. Writer Paul Laverty explains why he followed up I, Daniel Blake with a bio-pic about Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta. Yuli is directed by his partner Iciar Bollain, and this is the...
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Jessie Buckley from 2019-04-04T15:29
Jessie Buckley talks about Wild Rose, the story of a Country And Western singer from Glasgow, in which she stars and sings and writes her own songs. She tells Antonia Quirke what was it was like to...
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Moving Image: Jessica Hynes on The World of Apu from 2019-03-28T16:30
BAFTA winning actor, writer and director Jessica Hynes tells Francine Stock about Satyajit Ray's The World Of Apu; the third part of the Indian filmmaker's Apu Trilogy, released in 1959, and her Mo...
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Ralph Fiennes, Patricia Clarkson from 2019-03-21T16:29
With Antonia Quirke Ralph Fiennes and producer Gaby Tana discuss The White Crow, their drama about Rudolf Nureyev's defection to the West. Ralph explains why so much of the film is in Russian and...
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Film and poetry, and a bit of Bob Dylan from 2019-03-14T16:29
A film and poetry special with Robin Robertson and Hannah Sullivan. And in a radio exclusive, Sheila Atim and Toby Jones perform Bob Dylan’s Brownsville Girl.
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Captain Marvel from 2019-03-07T16:29
With Antonia Quirke. Indie darlings Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck reveal why they decided to make a blockbuster movie, Captain Marvel.In the latest instalment of his series on movie scores that were l...
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Moving Image: Deborah Haywood on Trainspotting from 2019-02-28T16:29
Director Deborah Haywood chooses Danny Boyle's Trainspotting and tells Francine how she came to first see it and love it. Trainspotting producer Andrew Macdonald and "best baddie ever" Robert Car...
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Derek Jarman from 2019-02-21T16:29
Antonia Quirke and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh embark on a pilgrimage to Dungeness to pay their respects to film-maker Derek Jarman on the 25th anniversary of his death. Along the way, they hear from colle...
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Rosamund Pike, Barry Jenkins from 2019-02-14T16:29
With Antonia Quirke. Rosamund Pike reveals the lengths she went to in order to play the legendary war reporter Marie Colvin in A Private War.Oscar winning director Barry Jenkins discusses If Beale...
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Mind The Gap: Barbara Stanwyck from 2019-02-12T17:27
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey review Barbara Stanwyck's Mad Miss Manton
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Richard E Grant from 2019-02-07T16:29
With Antonia Quirke Richard E. Grant talks to Antonia Quirke about his Oscar nominated role in Can You Ever Forgive Me ? and how his life has changed since he got the nomination.Joel Edgerton disc...
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Seamus McGarvey: 50 Shades of Grey to The Greatest Showman from 2019-01-31T16:29
With Antonia Quirke. Award-winning cinematographer Seamus McGarvey takes us behind the scenes of The Greatest Showman, The Hours and 50 Shades Of Grey
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Neil Brand's Game Changers: Back to the Future from 2019-01-21T12:00
A series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.
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Mary Queen of Scots from 2019-01-17T16:30
With Antonia Quirke. Director Josie Rourke discusses her film debut Mary, Queen Of Scots, and explains how one tweet about the film's historical accuracy became the thing that journalists wanted ...
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Neil Brand's Game Changers: Halloween from 2019-01-14T12:00
A series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.
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Stan&Ollie from 2019-01-10T16:30
With Antonia Quirke Writer Jeff Pope on what happened to Laurel and Hardy when they toured provincial theatres in the UK in the 1950sComedian Lucy Porter discusses the duo know as the female Stan&...
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Neil Brand's Game Changers: Braveheart from 2019-01-07T12:00
A series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.
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Timothée Chalamet, Yorgos Lanthimos from 2019-01-03T16:30
With Antonia Quirke. Timothée Chalamet talks about avoiding the cliches of playing a drug addict in his new drama Beautiful Boy and what happened to him after the success of Call Me By Your Name.G...
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Neil Brand's Game Changers: Spirited Away from 2018-12-31T12:00
A series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.
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Neil Brand's Game Changers: Superman from 2018-12-24T12:00
A series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.
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Neil Brand's Game Changers: Taxi Driver from 2018-12-17T12:00
A series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.
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Pitch Battle: The Conclusion from 2018-12-13T16:30
With Antonia Quirke In a year when we've seen yet more bio-pics about Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill and Queen Victoria, The Film Programme decided to do something about and find some subjects tha...
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Neil Brand's Game Changers: Cinema Paradiso from 2018-12-10T12:00
A series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.
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Boots Riley, Alfonso Cuaron from 2018-12-06T16:30
With Antonia Quirke Musician and director Boots Riley explains how he managed to get the American film industry to fund his ferocious anti-capitalist satire Sorry To Bother You.Alfonso Cuaron reve...
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Neil Brand's Game Changers: The Magnificent Seven from 2018-12-03T14:33
A series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.
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Moving Image - The Godfather from 2018-11-29T16:30
With Francine Stock. In the next instalment of her new series, Moving Image, Francine Stock talks to McMafia director James Watkins about a key influence on his film-making career, The Godfather. ...
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Neil Brand's Game Changers: 633 Squadron from 2018-11-26T12:00
A series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.
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Disobedience from 2018-11-22T16:30
With Antonia Quirke. Novelist Naomi Alderman and screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz discuss the film adaptation of Alderman's debut novel Disobedience, a lesbian love story set in the orthodox Jewish...
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Neil Brand's Game Changers: Alien from 2018-11-19T11:48
A series on soundtracks that broke with the established form for films in their genre.
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9 To 5, Luca Guadagnino from 2018-11-15T16:00
With Antonia Quirke Luca Guadagnino reveals his plans to turn Call Me By Your Name into a long-running saga that will span decades, and how he was inspired to re-make Suspiria even before he’d see...
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Utoya, Some Like It Hot from 2018-11-01T16:29
With Antonia Quirke. Utoya director Erik Poppe talks about his one-shot re-enactment of the right-wing terrorist attack in Norway in 2011, and reveals why he had three survivors by his side at all...
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How do you solve a problem like the movie musical? from 2018-10-31T12:26
Melody Bridges and Caitlin Benedict on the problematic fave that is the movie musical.
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Moving Image: Carol Morley on Jane Campion from 2018-10-25T15:29
With Francine Stock. In the second edition of her new series, Moving Image, Francine Stock talks to director Carol Morley about the film that has influenced her the most - Jane Campion's debut Swe...
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Orphee, Halloween, Matteo Garrone from 2018-10-18T15:29
With Antonia Quirke. Halloween comes early as composer Neil Brand reveals how John Carpenter's score for his 1978 horror classic changed the sound of horror in the movies.Poet Don Paterson waxes l...
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Rupert Everett from 2018-10-11T15:30
With Antonia Quirke Rupert Everett approaches the final chapter on his passion project about Oscar Wilde as The Happy Prince is released for home entertainment. He reflects on a journey that has l...
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Bradley Cooper from 2018-10-04T15:30
Antonia Quirke talks to Bradley Cooper about his re-make of A Star Is Born, which he co-wrote, directed and starred in. He reveals how the first ten minutes of the film came to him in a dream Susi...
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How do you solve a problem like The King and I? from 2018-10-01T06:00
Caitlin Benedict and Melody Bridges debate the hot issue of the day: should The King and I be thrown into the bin of history?
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Moving Image - When Paddington Bear Met Colonel Blimp from 2018-09-27T15:30
In the first of the new Moving Image series, Francine Stock talks to a filmmaker about a movie that continues to inspire them. This month, director Paul King reveals the influence of Powell and Pre...
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Glenn Close, Agnes Varda from 2018-09-20T15:30
With Antonia Quirke. Glenn Close reveals that she would like to see a re-make of Fatal Attraction in which her character Alex is more misunderstood than monster.Agnes Varda looks back at the faces...
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Mind the Gap: North Korean Monster Movies from 2018-09-18T14:24
Tim Robey and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh plug the gap in their knowledge of monster movies by finally catching up on the North Korean epic Pulgasari, which was made by a married couple who were kidnapped ...
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Atonement Redux, The Rider from 2018-09-13T15:29
Antonia Quirke visits Redcar, where they are re-creating the famous five minute, one-shot scene from Atonement of British soldiers evacuating Dunkirk , but without the budget of a blockbuster movie...
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Desiree Akhavan on The Miseducation Of Cameron Post from 2018-09-06T15:29
With Antonia Quirke. Desiree Akhavan discusses her new film about gay conversion therapy, The Miseducation Of Cameron Post, and her misgivings about lesbian drama Blue Is The Warmest Colour.
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Pawel Pawlikowski from 2018-08-30T15:30
With Antonia Quirke. Oscar winner Pawel Pawlikowski talks about his award-winning tale of amour fou in communist Poland, Cold War.Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn on designing the sound of John K...
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Christopher Robin, Sir Richard Eyre from 2018-08-16T15:29
With Antonia Quirke. Sir Richard Eyre discusses his re-union with novelist Ian McEwan with the release of The Children Act, three decades after they collaborated on The Ploughman's Lunch.Marc Fors...
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How Do You Solve A Problem Like My Fair Lady from 2018-08-07T16:50
Platonic love story or patriarchal nightmare? Melody Bridges and Caitlin Benedict debate.
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Generation Wealth from 2018-07-19T15:29
Lauren Greenfield exposes Generation Wealth, the consumer culture of excess, pornography, and cosmetic surgery for pets, and tells Francine Stock why she trained the lens on herself as part of her ...
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Ethan Hawke from 2018-07-12T15:29
Ethan Hawke tells Francine Stock about his role as a tormented priest in Paul Schrader's First Reformed, and why it's still rare to see a priest take the lead role in a Hollywood movie Directors B...
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How Do You Solve A Problem Like West Side Story? from 2018-06-29T12:00
Melody Bridges&Caitlin Benedict talk about the problematic fave that is West Side Story
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Bill Nighy from 2018-06-28T15:29
Francine Stock enters The Bookshop with Bill Nighy and follows the trail of a father and daughter who live rough in a national park in Oregon. They're the subject of Leave No Trace, directed by Deb...
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Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett from 2018-06-21T15:29
Francine Stock meets Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett to discuss Ocean's 8 and their plans to tackle gender inequality in the film industry. Comedian Rosemary Fletcher argues that all-female rebo...
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Mind the Gap: Argentinian New Wave from 2018-06-18T15:29
Critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey on the Argentinian New Wave.
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Alternate Realities at Sheffield Doc/Fest from 2018-06-15T14:10
Francine&Caitlin don headsets, download apps, and get immersed at Sheffield Doc/Fest
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Hereditary from 2018-06-14T15:29
Francine Stock talks to Ari Aster, the director of the film dubbed the scariest of the year, Hereditary. He explains why Mike Leigh was the greatest influence on his horror movie. Francine and Cai...
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The Film Programme Goes to Sheffield Doc/Fest from 2018-06-09T17:21
Francine and her plucky sidekick Caitlin choose Hope or Hate at Sheffield Doc/Fest
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The Attenborough Archive from 2018-06-07T15:30
Francine Stock visits the archive of Richard Attenborough in the University of Sussex, which contains over 700 boxes of letters, photos, film reviews and a Chelsea shirt signed by John Terry. As it...
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Jurassic World from 2018-05-31T15:30
Cult director J.A. Bayona tells Francine Stock why he took on the dinosaurs in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and why it's really a haunted house movie. Composer Neil Brand takes us on a tour with...
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The Breadwinner from 2018-05-24T15:30
With Francine Stock. Nora Twomey, director of The Breadwinner, explains how an animation about life under the Taliban in Afghanistan was produced by Angelina Jolie and made in KilkennyOlivia Hetre...
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Saoirse Ronan from 2018-05-17T15:30
With Francine Stock. Saoirse Ronan discusses her role in On Chesil Beach, as a young bride whose wedding night goes disastrously wrong with unforeseen consequences, and explains why Ian McEwan did...
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Godard, Revenge from 2018-05-10T15:30
With Francine Stock The Artist director Michel Hazanavicius discusses his bio-pic about Jean-Luc Godard, Redoubtable, and reveals whether it's meant to be tribute or insult.Matilda Lutz and Corali...
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Andrew Haigh from 2018-05-03T15:30
Award winning British director Andrew Haigh reveals why travelled to the southern states of America for his horse racing drama Lean On Pete.
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This Woman's Work, The Wound from 2018-04-26T15:30
Francine Stock presents a new series in The Film Programme. This Woman's Work is a regular discussion strand with some of the most important women in the British film industry. This week she talks ...
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Mind The Gap: Merchant Ivory from 2018-04-20T12:30
Critics Tim Robey and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh plug the gap in their knowledge of Merchant Ivory, the team that brought us Room With a View and The Remains of The Day. Their choice is the film that brou...
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Shirley Henderson, Maxine Peake from 2018-04-19T15:29
With Antonia Quirke. Shirley Henderson reveals the meticulous research she conducted for her role as a woman in the advanced stages of Parkinson's Disease for her new film Never Steady, Never Stil...
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Talking Pictures TV from 2018-04-12T15:29
With Antonia Quirke Antonia talks to Noel Cronin, the man behind cult channel Talking Pictures TV, which specialises in those old movies you used to catch on afternoon telly, often when you were i...
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From The Archive: Mark Gatiss' Guide To Lost British Cinema from 2018-04-09T12:00
The League Of Gentleman star picks a hidden gem, The Amazing Mr Blunden, which he saw in school in 1974, preceded by a government information film. Originally broadcast 21/08/09
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Todd Haynes, 120 Beats Per Minute from 2018-04-05T15:29
With Francine Stock. Carol director Todd Haynes discusses his adaptation of children's novel Wonderstruck and how he cast his lead actor from the deaf community.Director Robin Campillo reveals the...
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Steven Spielberg, Julie Delpy, Virtual Reality from 2018-03-29T15:29
With Francine Stock Steven Spielberg on Virtual Reality and his latest film Ready Player OneDan Tucker Curator Alternate Realities, Sheffield International Documentaries Festival considers the rea...
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Ava DuVernay from 2018-03-22T16:29
Ava DuVernay talks to Francine Stock about her new pre-teen, sci-fi fantasy film A Wrinkle In Time based on the award winning novel by Madeleine L'Engle. There's another episode of Pitch Battle a...
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Mary Magdalene, The Square, Raiders of the Lost Archaeologist from 2018-03-15T16:29
With Francine Stock. Here are five words you probably never thought you'd read in the same sentence - Joaquin Phoenix is Jesus Christ. Director Garth Davis explains why he cast the idiosyncratic a...
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Paddington 2, Lynne Ramsay from 2018-03-08T16:29
With Francine Stock Writer/director Paul King and writer Simon Farnaby reveal why Hugh Grant's character in Paddington 2, a pompous washed-up actor, was originally called Hugh Grant in the first d...
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A Fantastic Woman from 2018-03-01T16:29
With Francine Stock Director Sebastian Lelio discusses his ground-breaking drama A Fantastic Woman, with transgender star Daniela Vega in the lead, that could win Chile its first ever Oscar.The di...
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Clio Barnard from 2018-02-22T16:29
With Francine Stock Award winning film-maker Clio Barnard discusses her latest drama Dark River, based on scientific research conducted at the Wellcome Institute.Critics Gavia Baker-Whitelaw and B...
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Alison Janney, Sally Potter from 2018-02-15T16:29
With Francine Stock Alison Janney discusses her award winning role as Tonya Harding's mother in real-life ice-skating drama I, Tonya, and reveals why she's happy that she never met the real Mrs Ha...
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Guillermo del Toro from 2018-02-08T16:29
With Francine Stock Guillermo del Toro on his Oscar nominated fantasy The Shape Of Water and why it's a parable for our troubled times.The director of Russian family drama Loveless, Andrey Zvyagin...
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Paul Thomas Anderson from 2018-02-01T16:29
With Francine Stock Director Paul Thomas Anderson discusses Phantom Thread, Daniel Day Lewis' farewell to the film industry.There's another episode of Pitch Battle, in which historians nominate a ...
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Julie Delpy, Florence Pugh from 2018-01-25T16:29
With Francine Stock. Actor/director Julie Delpy explains why she thinks there are still only a few female directors and why, in her experience, some money men believe that women are too emotional ...
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Alexander Payne from 2018-01-18T16:29
Alexander Payne gives Francine Stock the low-down on Downsizing.
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Martin McDonagh from 2018-01-11T16:29
With Francine Stock. Playwright and writer/director Martin McDonagh talks about his award-winning drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and why he never knows which direction his plot i...
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Churchill in the movies; Rosamund Pike from 2018-01-04T16:29
With Francine Stock. The Darkest Hour is the second bio-pic about Winston Churchill in 12 months. Director Joe Wright discusses our continuing fascination with Britain's most famous prime minister...
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Aaron Sorkin from 2017-12-28T16:29
Francine Stock talks to West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin about his directorial debut Molly's Game. Based on the true story of a woman who ran underground poker games for the rich and famous, Sorkin r...
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Christmas Presents from 2017-12-21T16:29
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh is joined by Clare Binns and Tim Robey as they look back at the best films of 2017 and look forward to things to come from 2018.
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi from 2017-12-14T16:30
Inside Science presenter Adam Rutherford joins Francine Stock to assess the latest instalment in the Star Wars saga, while critic Gavia Baker-Whitelaw takes us through the various fan theories abou...
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Michael Haneke from 2017-11-30T16:47
Francine Stock meets Michael Haneke, award winning director of Funny Games, The White Ribbon, Amour and his latest, Happy End. He tells her why our modern obsession with screens should not replace ...
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Battle of the Sexes from 2017-11-23T16:29
With Francine Stock. Slumdog Millionaire and The Full Monty writer Simon Beaufoy tells Francine Stock about The Battle Of The Sexes and why it wasn't love all between tennis players Billie Jean Ki...
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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, Gloria Grahame from 2017-11-16T16:29
With Francine Stock. Peter Turner explains why his book Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool, about his relationship with Gloria Grahame, took 30 years to make it to the screen, and how Elizabeth Tay...
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Paddington 2; The Florida Project from 2017-11-09T16:29
Can you smell a movie? Francine Stock meets perfume expert and blogger Dariush Alavi who believes he can. Documentary maker Alex Gibney explains how he approached his new film No Stone Unturned, ...
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Norse Mythology and Marvel Comics from 2017-10-26T15:29
With Francine Stock What do The Mask, Thor and The Saga Of The Viking Women And Their Voyage To The Waters Of The Great Sea Serpent have in common? And what has this all got to do with Richard Wag...
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I Am Not a Witch from 2017-10-19T15:29
Francine Stock talks to Rungano Nyoni, the Welsh/Zambian director of I Am Not a Witch, about the surreal adventures of a young girl accused of witchcraft. Francine discusses newly discovered movie...
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Ian McEwan from 2017-10-12T16:51
In a special edition recorded at the BFI London Film Festival, Francine Stock talks to Ian McEwan about his screen work - the films he's adapted, the movies made from his novels, the Hollywood thri...
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Blade Runner 2049 from 2017-10-05T15:38
Francine Stock asks director Denis Villeneuve why he took on the sequel to the much loved classic Blade Runner. He reveals exactly what Ridley Scott said to him before he started filming. "Get a l...
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Bertrand Tavernier from 2017-09-21T15:31
With Francine Stock. Director Bertrand Tavernier takes Francine Stock on a journey through French cinema, and explains why it's good to meet your heroes, even if you don't like working with them.E...
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Vivien Leigh's Wig, The Art of Foley from 2017-09-07T15:29
With Antonia Quirke Antonia raids the store-room of foley artist Sue Harding at Twickenham film studios, and tries to make sense of the assorted snow shoes, filing cabinets and car parts that make...
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God's Own Country from 2017-08-31T15:32
God's Own Country tells the story of a romance between a Yorkshire sheep farmer and a Romanian migrant worker. Its director Francis Lee explains how he attempted to authentically conjure the rural ...
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Stanley Tucci from 2017-08-17T15:29
With Antonia Quirke Stanley Tucci talks about his latest film as writer/director, Final Portrait, the result of a life-long obsession with the artist Giacometti, which was inspired by his artist f...
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Jacques Cousteau and Cinema from 2017-08-10T15:29
With Antonia Quirke. Lambert Wilson, the star of a new bio-pic of Jacques Cousteau, The Odyssey, reveals why he could not lose enough weight to play the scrawny explorer, and why he ended up dream...
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Morrissey and the Movies from 2017-08-03T15:29
Antonia Quirke talks to Mark Gill, the director of a new bio-pic about Morrissey, England Is Mine, and considers the singer's influence on the movie tastes of a generation, introducing thousands of...
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James Ivory from 2017-07-27T15:29
Antonia Quirke talks to director James Ivory about Howard's End, as it's about to be re-released in cinemas, and his working relationship with producer Ismail Merchant that spawned dozens of movies...
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Christopher Nolan from 2017-07-20T15:29
With Francine Stock. The director of Inception, Christopher Nolan tells Francine Stock about his first war movie, Dunkirk, and why it's his most experimental film to date.Bryan Fogel explains how ...
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Bonnie and Clyde at 50 from 2017-07-13T15:29
With Francine Stock. Warren Beatty tells Francine Stock about the making of Bonnie And Clyde in the year of its 50th anniversary, and why he thought Bob Dylan would make a better Clyde Barrow than...
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Spider-Man from 2017-07-06T15:29
With Francine Stock. The president of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, and ex-Sony head, Amy Pascal, tell Francine why three actors have played Spider-Man in the last 13 years, and why this new one, c...
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Burton and Taylor's love nest from 2017-06-29T15:29
Antonia Quirke visits the house that Richard Burton bought for Elizabeth Taylor in a fishing village in Mexico, that's now a deluxe hotel. When the lovers conducted their affair out in the open in ...
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The Graduate from 2017-06-23T10:36
With Francine Stock. As The Graduate celebrates its 50th anniversary, Tim Robey and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh have one word for us. Just one word. Plastics.Korean director Bong Joon Ho explains why he t...
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Nick Broomfield on Whitney Houston from 2017-06-15T15:29
With Francine Stock. Nick Broomfield reveals why he decided to make a documentary about Whitney Houston and why her family refused to help him.Francine visits the Sheffield Documentary Festival, w...
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My Cousin Rachel from 2017-06-08T15:29
With Francine Stock Roger Michell, the writer/director of My Cousin Rachel, discusses the work of Daphne Du Maurier on film, from Rebecca to The Birds to Don't Look Now.
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Clive James on Steve McQueen; Wonder Woman from 2017-06-01T15:29
Antonia Quirke talks to director Patty Jenkins about warrior princess Wonder Woman and why it took her so long to arrive on the big screen. Clive James confesses to his fifty year love affair with...
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David Michod from 2017-05-26T12:03
With Francine Stock Francine talks to director David Michod about War Machine, his big budget satire on the U.S. military starring Brad Pitt, which is having its premiere on-line. He tells Francin...
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Ridley Scott from 2017-05-11T15:30
With Francine Stock. Ridley Scott tells Francine why his new Alien franchise will be as big as Star WarsDirector Francois Ozon explains how Brexit helped to get his latest drama Frantz made As th...
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Jessica Chastain from 2017-05-04T15:30
With Francine Stock. Jessica Chastain, the star of Miss Sloane, tells Francine why it's about time that we saw more women being ambitious, complicated and unlikeable on screen.Matthew Sweet discus...
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Lady Macbeth from 2017-04-27T15:30
With Francine Stock Writer/director David Leland revisits Worthing, the setting of his classic drama Wish You Were Here, which immortalised the phrase "up your bum".William Oldroyd discusses his a...
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Warren Beatty from 2017-04-20T15:30
With Francine Stock. Warren Beatty talks about his latest directorial outing, Rules Don't Apply, which he made 18 years after he directed his last movie. And reveals what he thinks now about the m...
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Sarah Waters on The Handmaiden from 2017-04-13T15:30
Sarah Waters tells Francine Stock what she thinks of the Korean adaptation of her novel Fingersmith Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey unlock some of the mysteries of David Lynch's Mulholland Drive...
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Arrival's Linguist from 2017-03-30T15:30
Linguist Jessica Coon advised on last year's Arrival. What conversations did she have with its star Amy Adams? We continue our A to Z of film with the letter E. This week it's Clint Eastwood versu...
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Paul Laverty from 2017-03-23T16:30
Writer Paul Laverty talks about his film The Olive Tree and the political impact of his Ken Loach collaboration I, Daniel Blake. Director Kleber Mendonça Filho tells us what happened after the cas...
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Personal Shopper from 2017-03-16T16:29
With Francine Stock. Olivier Assayas reveals the secrets of Kristen Stewart's screen presence in Personal Shopper, and the connection between phone technology and spiritualism.This year's winner o...
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Cells and Celluloid: Aliens on Film from 2017-03-09T16:59
With Adam Rutherford and Francine Stock.
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Paul Verhoeven from 2017-03-02T16:30
With Francine Stock The controversial director of Basic Instinct and Robocop, Paul Verhoeven, tells Francine Stock why Isabelle Huppert agreed to star in his latest contentious movie, Elle, after ...
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The Crying Game from 2017-02-23T16:29
With Francine Stock. Stephen Woolley, producer of The Crying Game, reveals why the film almost never got made and the lengths he went to keep the movie's famous twist a secret.Critics Tim Robey an...
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John Waters from 2017-02-16T16:29
With Antonia Quirke. Director and agent provocateur John Waters reveals why his straight-laced parents paid for one of the most outrageous movies in American film history, Multiple Maniacs.First t...
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Annette Bening from 2017-02-09T16:30
With Antonia Quirke Annette Bening reveals why she's rarely seen without a cigarette even though she gave up smoking long ago.Antonia meets Sylvette Baudrot, the only woman in film history to have...
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Danny Boyle; Rebecca Hall from 2017-01-26T16:30
With Francine Stock Danny Boyle revisits Trainspotting for its sequel T2 and reveals why he's been watching the original over his daughters' shouldersRebecca Hall reveals how she got under the ski...
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Goodfellas from 2017-01-19T16:30
With Francine Stock Oscar winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker takes Francine behind the scenes of one of the great set-pieces in Martin Scorsese's classic gangster picture Goodfellas. And reveals wh...
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La La Land from 2017-01-12T16:30
With Francine Stock Francine takes a trip to La La Land, the musical which has just swept the board at the Golden Gobes, with critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey.Another awards contender Man...
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Jodorowsky from 2017-01-05T16:30
With Francine Stock. Francine meets Alejandro Jodorowsky, the cult director, mime artist and graphic artist, who was discovered by John Lennon and who once attempted to make a version of Dune in w...
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2016 in Pictures from 2016-12-22T17:00
Francine Stock and guests discuss the best films of 2016.
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Paul Robeson from 2016-12-08T16:30
With Francine Stock. Francine visits the setting and locations of The Proud Valley starring Paul Robeson, actor, activist, singer, linguist, lawyer and honorary Welshman. Historian Phil Carradice ...
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Blue Velvet from 2016-12-01T16:30
Francine Stock revisits the manicured lawns and gothic horror of Blue Velvet as David Lynch's surreal masterpiece celebrates its thirtieth anniversary. She is accompanied on her journey to the hear...
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A Tale of Two Picture Houses from 2016-11-24T16:30
Francine Stock visits Campbeltown on the west coast of Scotland where the community have come together to save their art deco cinema, The Picture House, one of the most architecturally important in...
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James Schamus from 2016-11-17T16:30
Producer, writer, professor and former studio boss James Schamus tells Francine Stock why he took the plunge and directed his first film, Inidgnation, after three decades in the business. In an ex...
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Napoleon and I from 2016-11-10T16:30
Historian Kevin Brownlow tells Francine Stock about his 50 year quest to restore Abel Gance's silent masterpiece Napoleon to its five and half hour glory, and why the search for missing scenes stil...
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Jacqueline Bisset from 2016-10-27T15:30
With Francine Stock. Jacqueline Bisset looks back at Day For Night, Francois Truffaut's Oscar-winning movie about movie-making. She reveals why she refuses "to whinge" about the roles offered to o...
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David Oyelowo from 2016-10-20T15:30
With Francine Stock. Actor and producer David Oyelowo outlines his plans to revolutionize the British film industry and to make films that are genuinely diverse and reflective of the United Kingdo...
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Andrea Arnold from 2016-10-13T15:30
With Francine Stock. British director Andrea Arnold discusses her own trip across the United States that inspired her road movie American Honey, and reveals how she discovered her star, Sasha Lane...
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Black Star from 2016-10-06T15:30
With Francine Stock. The Film Programme has teamed up with the BFI on a poll to decide the best performance by a black actor of all time. Among the nominees is Earl Cameron in Pool Of London, the ...
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Tim Burton from 2016-09-29T15:30
Francine Stock enters Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children with Tim Burton. The director reveals why he loves Blackpool so much and why its pleasure beach reflects his state of mind. Direct...
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David Arnold from 2016-09-22T15:30
With Francine Stock A soundtrack special with David Arnold's notes on Independence Day, which has more saluting than any other movie, according to the composer. Adrian Utley of Portishead and Will...
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Colin Firth, Ralph Fiennes from 2016-09-15T15:39
Colin Firth and Francine Stock indulge in some Bridget Jones's Baby talk, and the actor admits that he is partly to blame for the out-dated stereotype of the reticent Englishman. Ralph Fiennes exp...
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Kubo And The Two Strings, Hell Or High Water from 2016-09-09T10:09
With Francine Stock. The spirit of Ray Harryhausen is invoked in a new stop-motion animation Kubo And The Two Strings, which boasts the largest stop-motion puppet in animation history, standing 16...
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The Choir That Sang Elvish from 2016-09-01T15:30
With Antonia Quirke. Antonia meets London Voices, the choir that supply the voices to the soundtracks of blockbusters such as The Lord Of The Rings, Spectre and Iron Man 2.Poet Don Paterson conclu...
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Save Our Cinemas from 2016-08-25T15:30
With Antonia Quirke. Antonia meets two groups who are trying to save their local cinemas in Deptford and Homerton and hears from a local trust in Aberfeldy who successfully saved theirs and are st...
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Swallows and Amazons from 2016-08-18T15:30
With Antonia Quirke. Antonia is joined by 18 year old vlogger and Into Film journalist, Ceyda Uzun, on her first press interview junket: an interview with the writer of Swallows And Amazons, Andre...
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Ingrid Bergman and Don Paterson from 2016-08-11T15:30
With Antonia Quirke. Award-winning poet Don Paterson continues his series about great speeches in cinema history with the ever quotable Casablanca. Don't forget - we'll always have Paris.Stig Bjor...
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Alex Cox on Sid&Nancy, Don Paterson on Marlon Brando from 2016-08-04T15:30
With Antonia Quirke. To mark its 30th anniversary release, the director of Sid&Nancy, Alex Cox reveals his regrets about his Sid Vicious bio-pic. And why he almost cast Daniel Day-Lewis as the pun...
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How to Direct a Thriller by Paul Greengrass from 2016-07-28T15:30
With Francine Stock. Jason Bourne director Paul Greengrass gives Francine a personal masterclass on how to make a contemporary thriller and reveals the reasons why he would never want to direct a ...
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Finding Dory from 2016-07-21T15:30
With Francine Stock. Director Andrew Stanton and producer Lindsey Collins reveal why they took the plunge with the sequel to the 2003 hit Finding Nemo. They reveal how to cast a fish for a movie, ...
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Ghostbusters Revisited from 2016-07-14T15:30
With Francine Stock. The Comedians Cinema Club present their unique take on Ghostbusters.Joshua Oppenheimer, the director of the award-winning and controversial documentary about Indonesian death ...
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Rebecca Miller on Maggie's Plan from 2016-07-07T15:30
With Francine Stock Rebecca Miller, the writer/director of Maggie's Plan, discusses the ways in which academia is like the mafia.Josh Kriegman discusses his fly-on-the-wall documentary about the a...
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Notes on Blindness from 2016-06-30T15:30
Francine Stock talks to James Spinney and Peter Middleton, the makers of a ground-breaking documentary, Notes On Blindness, that's also showing in Virtual Reality. Composer Neil Brand on the chord...
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Toby Jones, Virtual reality from 2016-06-16T15:30
With Francine Stock
Toby Jones reflects on his new role, a king who becomes obsessed by a flea, in the historical drama Tale Of Tales.
When David Bowie announced the retirement of...
Embrace Of The Serpent; I Am Belfast from 2016-06-09T15:30
With Francine Stock.
Film-maker Mark Cousins and composer David Holmes discuss their documentary I Am Belfast and reveal why they rarely went to the cinema at the height of The Troubles.
Will The Nice Guys Ever Be The Nice Gals? from 2016-06-02T15:30
With Francine Stock.
Francine asks Shane Black, the creator of the Lethal Weapon series, why buddy movies tend to be about men and whether The Nice Guys will ever be The Nice Gals.
Whit Stillman and Jane Austen from 2016-05-26T15:30
With Francine Stock.
The director of Love And Friendship, Whit Stillman reveals why, of all Jane Austen's novels, he decided to adapt her unfinished novella Lady Susan. And why he's writte...
Remembering Antonia Bird from 2016-05-11T16:00
With Francine Stock
Director Antonia Bird, one of the few female directors to carve out a career in the British film industry, is remembered by friends and colleagues Ronan Bennett, Mark C...
Stephen Frears, Women in westerns, Angela Pleasence from 2016-05-05T15:30
With Francine Stock
Director Stephen Frears and writer Nicholas Martin discuss Florence Foster Jenkins, their bio-pic of the New York socialite and would-be singer whose voice made grown m...
Son of Saul, The Sound Barrier, 1916 v 2016 from 2016-04-28T15:30
With Francine Stock
Laszlo Nemes discusses Son Of Saul, his Oscar winning film about life and death in a Nazi concentration camp.
Sir Christopher Frayling takes us behind the scen...
Bastille Day, Flatpack Film Festival from 2016-04-21T15:30
Francine Stock visits the Flatpack Festival in Birmingham and tries out Blind Cinema, where she is blindfolded as a small child whispers in her ear, describing the action on the screen.
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The Jungle Book Revisited from 2016-04-14T15:30
With Francine Stock.
"I wanna be like you, I wanna talk like you, be like you too" could easily be the refrain sung by Hollywood producers intent on flooding the market with re-boots, rema...
Jacques Audiard from 2016-04-07T15:30
With Francine Stock
Director Jacques Audiard reveals why he cast a former Tamil Tiger to star in his drama Dheepan, which won the prestigious Palme D'Or at last year's Cannes festival.
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Terence Davies on Doris Day, Aidan Moffat on folk music from 2016-03-31T16:00
With Antonia Quirke.
Ex-Arab Strap front man Aidan Moffat talks about his controversial attempts to re-write traditional Scottish folk songs, as documented in the new film Where You're Mea...
Ben Affleck is Batman from 2016-03-24T16:30
With Antonia Quirke
Ben Affleck discusses the parallels between Bruce Wayne and Donald Trump in his super-hero movie Batman V Superman.
Antonia visits one of the few remaining vid...
Ben Wheatley on High-Rise from 2016-03-17T16:30
With Antonia Quirke.
Director Ben Wheatley discusses his adaptation of J.G. Ballard's dystopian satire High-Rise and why he's literally terrified of the 70s. Producer Jeremy Thomas explain...
Anomalisa, The Witch, Women in Love from 2016-03-10T16:30
With Antonia Quirke.
Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson discuss their stop-motion comedy Anomalisa, how they made a love scene with puppets and why it took 6 months.
Cinematographer...
The Coen brothers on synchronised swimming and communism from 2016-03-03T16:53
The Coen Brothers talk to Antonia Quirke about Hail Caesar, a parody of Hollywood in the early 50s and explain why they believe there were Reds under the beds in the film industry at the time.
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The Oscars, A video shop in Greenland from 2016-02-25T16:30
With Antonia Quirke.
Clare Binns and Tim Robey assess the runners and riders in this year's Academy Awards
Antonia talks to Nikolene, an Inuit in Greenland, about why her local vi...
John Lasseter from 2016-02-18T16:30
The Film Programme this week explores the work of American animator and film maker John Lasseter.
Presenter Francine Stock talks to John about his moving making techniques and films includ...
Suffragette from 2016-02-11T16:30
With Francine Stock.
Film-maker Sarah Gavron talks about Suffragette and the marked reactions to the film since it was released in cinemas.
Director Mark Jenkin shows Francine how...
Toby Jones on Dad's Army from 2016-02-04T16:30
With Francine Stock.
Toby Jones reveals why he was in two minds about playing Captain Mainwaring in the new film version of Dad's Army.
Director Grímur Hákonarson tells Francine w...
Anna Karina on her life and work with Godard from 2016-01-28T17:30
With Francine Stock.
Anna Karina talks about her life and work with Jean-Luc Godard - why he asked her to take her clothes off in their first meeting and how he would disappear for weeks a...
Adam McKay on The Big Short from 2016-01-21T17:31
With Francine Stock
Anchorman writer/director Adam McKay discusses The Big Short, his Oscar nominated tragi-comedy about the financial crisis that hit the global markets in the mid 2000s.<...
Alejandro Inarritu on The Revenant from 2016-01-14T17:30
With Francine Stock
The Oscar winning director of Birdman, Alejandro Inarritu discusses his western The Revenant, which tested his actors, including Leonardo Di Caprio, to their limits and...
Eddie Redmayne from 2016-01-07T17:30
With Francine Stock.
Eddie Redmayne reveals the research he undertook for The Danish Girl, a new drama about transgender pioneer Lili Elbe, and what he observed about women's body language...
Women in Film from 2015-12-31T17:30
Francine Stock hosts a discussion about the roles of women in the film industry and whether anything is getting better in terms of jobs, pay and opportunities. Joining her are producer Elizabeth Ka...
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The Best Films of the Year from 2015-12-24T18:00
Francine Stock presents a festive edition with the best films of the year, as chosen by critic Tim Robey, film buyer and programmer Clare Binns and critic and producer Catherine Bray.
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Star Wars - do you remember the first time? from 2015-12-17T17:30
Francine Stock asks listeners: Do you remember the first time with Star Wars ?
She hears from people who have seen the first film over 20 times, who could recite every line of dialogue, an...
The Lost Star of The Fallen Idol, Andy Serkis on his film studio from 2015-12-10T17:30
With Francine Stock.
Andy Serkis, best known as Gollum in The Lord Of The Rings, and producer Jonathan Cavendish, discuss their new version of The Jungle Book which was made at The Imagina...
Terence Davies on Sunset Song, Chris Milk on Virtual Reality from 2015-12-03T17:30
With Francine Stock
Terence Davies talks about Sunset Song, which has been 18 years in the making
Virtual reality guru Chris Milk discusses the future of making feature films in t...
Todd Haynes on Carol; Jonathan Glazer, Carol Morley and Clio Barnard; Listen to Me Marlon from 2015-11-26T17:30
With Francine Stock.
Director Todd Haynes discusses Carol, his Patricia Highsmith adaptation starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara as clandestine lovers in 1950s New York.
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How I Pitched To Steven Spielberg, and Barbara Broccoli on Life Beyond Bond from 2015-11-19T17:30
With Francine Stock
James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli explains why she's just produced a film called Radiator, about a middle-aged man caring for his two elderly parents that was made f...
Aaron Sorkin on Steve Jobs, How to make a movie on a smart phone from 2015-11-12T17:30
With Francine Stock
The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin discusses his biopic about Apple founder Steve Jobs and why the relationship between the character and the real person is the differe...