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Listen to The Film Programme, a Society & Culture podcast by BBC. Stream 599 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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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 stream...

56:18Sep 30, 2021

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, a...

34:24Sep 23, 2021

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 Be...

27:52Sep 20, 2021

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...

34:57Sep 14, 2021

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 so...

27:39Sep 2, 2021

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...

27:46Aug 26, 2021

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 m...

27:46Aug 19, 2021

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...

27:50Aug 12, 2021

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...

27:54Aug 5, 2021

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...

27:52Jul 29, 2021

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...

30:45Jul 22, 2021

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 dire...

27:49Jul 19, 2021

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,...

33:01Jul 8, 2021

Thomas Vinterberg

With Antonia Quirke Festen director Thomas Vinterberg discusses the personal tragedy behind his latest film, Another Round. Friendship's Dea...

29:09Jul 1, 2021

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. F...

27:46Jun 24, 2021

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. H...

27:50Jun 17, 2021

Ousmane Sembene

With Antonia Quirke. Ousmane Sembene has been called the father of African Film, single-handedly starting a movie industry in Senegal. As hi...

27:51Jun 10, 2021

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 nobod...

27:38Jun 3, 2021

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 T...

27:51May 27, 2021

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 twi...

27:53May 20, 2021

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