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Chris Menges, Local Hero

The Film Programme by BBC

Sep 23, 202134:24Society & Culture

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 with Michael Parkinson. Bait dir...

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Chris Menges, Local Hero is an episode from The Film Programme by BBC. 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...

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Published Sep 23, 2021, 34:24 long, audio available.

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