16/08/2012
Matthew Sweet meets Stallone and Schwarzenegger to talk action heroes, Tippi Hedren discusses her relationship with Alfred Hitchcock, and Mark Gatiss talks Prick Up Your Ears.
Matthew Sweet meets with Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger to talk action heroes, male masculinity, and 19th century poetry.
Star of The Birds and Marnie, Tippi Hedren, discusses her troubled relationship with Alfred Hitchcock.
And Mark Gatiss selects another of his favourite biopics - Stephen Frear's Prick Up Your Ears, a study of playwright Joe Orton and his doomed relationship with his lover, Kenneth Halliwell.
Producer: Craig Smith.
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Clips
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Tippi Hedren: ‘Hitchcock wanted total control of me’
Duration: 03:12
Chapters
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Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger
Matthew Sweet meets with Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger to talk action heroes, male masculinity, and 19th century poetry.
Duration: 10:29
Broadcasts
- Thu 16 Aug 2012 16:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 FM
- Sun 19 Aug 2012 23:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
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