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01/04/2011

Francine Stock talks to Jerzy Skolimowski and Jim Loach about their new films and actor Roger Allam explains how the comic strip Tamara Drewe was given cinematic life.

In The Film Programme this week, Francine Stock talks to two directors at very different stages of their careers - Jerzy Skolimowski and Jim Loach. Skolimowski has been involved in cinema since the Sixties and as well as collaborating with Polanski directed, Deep End and Moonlighting. He believes his new film, Essential Killing, is his best yet. Jim Loach by contrast has just made his first feature - Oranges and Sunshine... a story about the deportation of children from the United Kingdom to Australia - a subject that might easily have tempted his father, Ken. Francine also talks to the actor Roger Allam about his part in bringing Posy Simmonds' cartoon strip, Tamara Drewe, to the big screen and the BFI's Bryony Dixon shares her delight in the ever-evolving relationship between cinema and radio.

Producer: Zahid Warley.

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30 minutes

Last on

Sun 3 Apr 2011 23:00

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  • JIM LOACH

    Jim Loach has just made his first feature Oranges and Sunshine, about the deportation of children from the United Kingdom to Australia, a subject that might easily have tempted his father, Ken.

    Duration: 07:02

Broadcasts

  • Fri 1 Apr 2011 16:30
  • Sun 3 Apr 2011 23:00

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