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10/11/2011

Francine Stock talks to Withnail creator, Bruce Robinson about his return to directing with The Rum Diary, and Andrea Arnold and Errol Morris discuss Tabloid and Wuthering Heights.

The Film Programme this week features ill -fated romance, outer space and excessive drinking. So something for everyone! Francine Stock talks to Withnail's creator, Bruce Robinson about his return to directing with The Rum Diary starring Johnny Depp; Errol Morris will be discussing his new documentary --Tabloid -- about Joyce McKinney the former beauty queen known to some readers and newspaper editors in the Seventies as the woman at the centre of the sex in chains scandal;and Fish Tank's director Andrea Arnold explains her involvement with Wuthering Heights. Then to round it all off the critic Nigel Floyd revisits the cult science fiction film, Silent Running which gave Bruce Dern his first lead role as a kind of cosmic gardener.

Producer: Zahid Warley.
Presenter FRANCINE STOCK.

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