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 Olivier in A Voyage Around My Father Author Anna Cale and historian Matthew Sweet talk about the phenomenon that was Diana Dors and reveal how her life would have changed if she had only married Bob Monkhouse.

Alvin Rakoff

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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 O'Brien and Sally Potter. They also reveal their favourite last scenes in the history of the movies.

The Last Picture Show

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 director Mark Jenkin records his last audio diary about the making of his horror movie, Enys Men, which was delayed by a year because of lockdown and was filmed during the pandemic.  Listeners nominate their favourite final scenes and composer Neil Brand chooses his two favourite end pieces: Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and Cabaret.  Sweetheart director Marley Morrison nominates her favourite final scene - the brief encounter in Andrew Haigh's debut Weekend. And thank you to all of you who nominated your favourite final scene. We didn't have time to mention them all on air, so here is the complete list: Algiers
Animal House
Being There
Be Kind, Rewind
Big Night
Billy Elliot
Bright Star
Capernaum
Casablanca
Chinatown
Cinderella
Cold War
Death In Venice
Empire Of The Sun
Ex Machina
400 Blows
Genevieve
Gloria
Goodbye Mr Chips
Ice Cold In Alex
James And The Giant Peach
Local Hero
Los Silensios
Michael Clayton
Midnight Run
Monsoon Wedding
Nostalgia
Of Gods And Men
O Lucky Man !
On The Waterfront
Orlando
Pan's Labyrinth
Pepe Le Moko
Rocks
Sideways
Some Like It Hot
Stalker
System Crasher
The Apartment
The Battle Of Algiers
The Deer Hunter
The Leopard
The Lives Of Others
The Long Good Friday
The Mermaid
The Mission
The Purple Rose Of Cairo
The Seventh Seal
The Silence Of The Lambs
The Taking Of Pelham 1-2-3
The Third Man
The Usual Suspects
This Is Spinal Tap
Tunes Of Glory
Un Coeur En Hiver
Withnail And I
Witness

Chris Menges, Local Hero

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 superhero movie. Robert Shaw's son Ian takes us behind some of the scenes in Jaws that form the basis of his new play The Shark Is Broken, and explains why the famous Indianapolis speech had to be filmed twice In his last ever diary entry before the programme ends on September 30th, cinema owner Kevin Markwick explains why Bond movies have always been important to the survival of The Uckfield Picturehouse; this year more than ever before.

Emma Thomas: How Batman Began

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 birthday present for fellow League Of Gentleman member Reece Shearsmith. Sean Barton reveals some secrets from the editing suite and how he made the audience gasp in a famous scene from Jagged Edge. Annette director Leos Carax  explains why the star of his film about a two year old singing sensation is played by a puppet.

Mark Gatiss: Anthony Hopkins superfan

With Antonia Quirke You might think that fewer movies would be made during a pandemic, with continual testing and all the restrictions on social distancing. In fact, the British film industry has never been busier, and production designer Maria Djurkovic explains why that's the case. Script supervisor Angela Allen reveals all the unpaid jobs she did during her five decades in the film industry, from second unit director to editorial consultant to Katherine Hepburn's double in The African Queen. The directors of Shorta, Frederik Louis Hviid and Anders Olholm, tell Antonia why their thriller about a riot in a housing estate is very different from the typical Danish movie.

Alvin Rakoff

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