Listen To Lillian

On this episode Lillian is joined by the Queen of Sensual Cinema, Isabel Sandoval, director of Señorita and Lingua Franca, to discuss Tony Scott's atmospheric vampire film The Hunger, starring Catherine Deneuve, Susan Sarandon, and David Bowie.

Film critic and writer Fatima Sheriff is Lillian's guest this week on the podcast exploring the history of British cinema and culture. Her film selection is Bright Star (2009), the gorgeous biographical film about the relationship between John Keats and Fanny Brawne, directed by Jane Campion.

Writer, poet, and editor Madeleine Wulfahrt joins Lillian to discuss the 1986 Derek Jarman film Caravaggio and Sally Potter's 1992 adaptation of Orlando by Virginia Woolf. This episode was originally recorded in 2020 and has been edited.

Writer and critic Laura Venning joins Lillian to discuss the 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, written by Emma Thompson and directed by Ang Lee.

Little White Lies editor and writer David Jenkins joins Lillian to discuss Alan Clarke's adaptation of Jim Cartwright's play Road, produced for the BBC strand ScreenPlay in 1987.

For this bumper episode, writer and programmer So Mayer brings to films with them onto the podcast - Margaret Tait's Blue Black Permanent and Sally Potter's Orlando, both released in 1992.

A new dawn approaches for Listen to Lillian as we kick off a new season of the podcast with a wholesome discussion around Joe Wright's 2005 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, featuring cultural programmer Clémence Rebourg.

For this episode of Listen to Lillian, Lizzie Mackarel joins me to discuss one of Merchant Ivory's masterpieces - The Remains of the Day, based on the Booker-winning novel by Kazuo Ishiguro.

Film critic Katie Duggan joins me fora deep dive into the nuances of one of the greatest British films, The Long Day Closes (1992) directed by Terence Davies

For the second episode of season three, I talked to Mailí Ní Ghormáin about the 2006 drama Notes On A Scandal directed by Richard Eyre and based on the novel by Zoë Heller.