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The World's End; Mark Gatiss On the Buses; Breathe In; Hans Zimmer

Matthew Sweet talks dangerous nostalgia with The World's End director Edgar Wright. Mark Gatiss looks back at cinema spin off of On the Buses. Plus Hans Zimmer on his big break.

Matthew Sweet talks dangerous nostalgia with Edgar Wright, director of the comedy The World's End. Starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, the plot follows the group of friends as they return to their home town to complete a pub crawl from their youth. Their mission is thrown off course by aliens. Edgar Wright reveals an autobiographical bent to the tale.
The Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer has written scores for countless films from The Lion King to Driving Miss Daisy to Gladiator. He describes the moment he got his big break, composing the music for Rain Man.
Felicity Jones and director Drake Doremus are back with a new film Breathe In, about an English exchange student whose arrival in upstate New York throws the perfect lives of her host family into chaos. The pair previously made Like Crazy together and explain their love of improvisation and risk-taking with performance.
Mark Gatiss is also dabbling in nostalgia. As part of his series on 70s sitcom cinema spin offs, he looks back at Holiday On The Buses, a distinctly uncomfortable watch.
And on the Film Programme website, White Elephant. Newly released on dvd, this film explores the lives of priests working in the slums of Buenos Aires. The director Pablo Trapero describes working in these areas as a teenager and how this inspired his latest film. Its release proved timely as the new Pope had also worked in the slums and granted the film crew permission to approach the priests there when making this feature.

Producer: Elaine Lester.

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28 minutes

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest Edgar Wright
Interviewed Guest Mark Gatiss
Interviewed Guest Felicity Jones
Interviewed Guest Drake Doremus
Interviewed Guest Hans Zimmer
Interviewed Guest Pablo Trapero
Producer Elaine Lester

Broadcasts

  • Thu 18 Jul 2013 16:00
  • Sun 21 Jul 2013 23:00

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