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The Last Picture Show
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 h...
Chris Menges, Local Hero
With Antonia Quirke
Oscar winning cinematographer and director Chris Menges takes us behind the scenes of Local Hero, The Mission and Kes, and r...
Emma Thomas: How Batman Began
With Antonia Quirke
Producer Emma Thomas reveals the conversation she had with partner Christopher Nolan that led to the making of Batman Begins...
Mark Gatiss: Anthony Hopkins superfan
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 sc...
Maria Djurkovic
With Antonia Quirke
You might think that fewer movies would be made during a pandemic, with continual testing and all the restrictions on social...
Hossein Amini on Heat
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 199...
Jude Law, Ayten Amin and Mark Jenkin
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...
Alvin Rakoff
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...
Juliet Stevenson on Truly, Madly, Deeply
Juliet Stevenson revisits a moving and tearful scene from Truly, Madly, Deeply which broke new ground in the portrayal of grief.
Matt Damon and...
Francis Lee on My Beautiful Laundrette
My Beautiful Laundrette, written by Hanif Kureishi and directed by Stephen Frears, was one of the early films produced for Channel 4. First screened i...
Bruce Robinson: Withnail and me
With Antonia Quirke
Antonia reveals the favourite phone box scenes as chosen by Film Programme listeners and talks to writer/director Bruce Robi...
Carol Morley on Muriel Box
With Antonia Quirke
Director Carol Morley asked Film Programme listeners if any of them knew Muriel Box, Britain's most prolific female director...
David Oyelowo
With Antonia Quirke
Actor and producer David Oyelowo reveals how he made his directorial debut, The Water Man, almost by accident. And why, than...
Thomas Vinterberg
With Antonia Quirke
Festen director Thomas Vinterberg discusses the personal tragedy behind his latest film, Another Round.
Friendship's D...
Iron Curtain Directors
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. Franc...
Stanley Tucci
With Antonia Quirke
Stanley Tucci reveals how his latest film Supernova is the story of a long-lasting friendship, both on and off screen. He's...
Ousmane Sembene
With Antonia Quirke.
Ousmane Sembene has been called the father of African Film, single-handedly starting a movie industry in Senegal. As his 19...
Ben Whishaw
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 se...
Toby Jones
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 S...
Cinema: open for business
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 a...
Cinema: The Comeback
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 f...
How I directed a movie with Parkinson's Disease
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 Dis...
Judi, Nicole, Sandra, Kristin, Cate, Fanny, Anna and Francine
With Francine Stock
Francine considers the changing role of the actress in Hollywood and European cinema, from muse to producer. She hears from...
Mark Jenkin & The Köttings
With Antonia Quirke
The Film Programme has exclusive behind the scenes access to some of the most exciting and innovative film-makers in this co...
Chloe Zhao
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...
The Power
With Antonia Quirke
The Power is set in a spooky hospital during the electrical blackouts of the early 70s. Antonia visits the set, itself a spo...
Antonia and the stars
Antonia Quirke considers the phenomenon and future of the so called film junket, the movie publicity process whereby film stars are serially intervie...
Rogue Males
Francine Stock talks to Christopher Plummer, Warren Beatty, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Jack Nicholson and Peter O'Toole about their long careers i...
Francis Lee on Ammonite
Antonia Quirke talks to Francis Lee, director of Ammonite, starring Kate Winslet, about the palaeontologist Mary Anning. They discuss his controversia...
Location, Location, Location
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.
Pro...
The World of the Coens
With Antonia Quirke
Antonia presents a guide to the universe of The Coen Brothers with help from the siblings themselves. From Film Programme in...
Kevin Macdonald on The Battle Of Algiers
With Francine Stock
Director Kevin Macdonald reveals the influence of The Battle Of Algiers on his latest drama, The Mauritanian, the true story...
Seamus McGarvey's Lockdown Diary
With Antonia Quirke
Cinematographer Seamus McGarvey has had an eventful 12 months, from being told to pack his bags overnight and get a flight t...
Christopher Lee on The Lord Of The Rings
With Antonia Quirke
This year sees the 20th anniversary of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. To mark the occasion, Antonia revisits her encounter w...
Angela Allen
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...
Leslie Caron
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 Gen...
The Dig
With Antonia Quirke
The Dig production Designer Maria Djurkovic reveals how she re-created the famous burial mounds in Sutton Hoo in a field jus...
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
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...
Ellen Burstyn
With Antonia Quirke.
Legendary actress Ellen Burstyn talks about Pieces Of A Woman, the film that might make her the oldest person to be nominat...
Richard Lester
With Francine Stock
Francine rifles through The Film Programme archives to hear from director Richard Lester about working with The Beatles on A...