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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, Gloria Grahame

Radio 4's weekly film programme. Peter Turner on how his book about his relationship with Gloria Grahame, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, took 30 years to make into a film.

With Francine Stock.

Peter Turner explains why his book Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool, about his relationship with Gloria Grahame, took 30 years to make it to the screen, and how Elizabeth Taylor and Madonna were once mooted to play the lead.

To complement the release of Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool, the British Film Institute is showing a season of Gloria Grahame's best bad girl roles, from The Big Heat to Human Desire. Film historian Pamela Hutchinson picks the most fatale of all her femmes.

Comedian Rosemary Fletcher takes stock of the mothers, girlfriends and sidekicks that cinema has assigned to fifty percent of the population. In this week's edition of Rosemary Versus Mankind, she goes into bat for the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, whose only mission in life seems to be soothe and save the sensitive male lead.

Directors Christina Clusiau and Saul Schwarz discuss Trophy, their award-winning documentary about hunters who pay tens of thousands of dollars to kill wildlife in Africa.

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28 minutes

Last on

Sun 19 Nov 2017 23:00

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Francine Stock
Interviewed Guest Peter Turner
Interviewed Guest Rosemary Fletcher
Interviewed Guest Christina Clusiau
Interviewed Guest Saul Schwarz

Broadcasts

  • Thu 16 Nov 2017 16:00
  • Sun 19 Nov 2017 23:00

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