In an episode dedicated to female film-making, award-winning Indian director Mira Nair talks about her “6 hour film” adaptation of A Suitable Boy for the BBC and recommends her influences from the photography of Dayanita Singh to Visconti’s The Leopard and the cultural history of Lucknow. 

Documentary maker Mark Cousins discusses his 14-hour epic Women Make Film, which actresses he enlisted for the narration, and why he loves The Great British Sewing Bee.  

Mira Nair:

Pataal Lok (15.18)

My 20th Century (17.42)

Mark Cousins:

The Great British Sewing Bee (33.00)

Ideas: A History - Peter Watson (33.57)

Music by Lee Rosevere.

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