Director Sally Potter, Composer Jimmy Webb, Anorexia on screen
Arts news, interviews and reviews. Sally Potter discusses her new film the Party; songwriter Jimmy Webb on his many hits including Wichita Lineman and Galveston; anorexia on film.
In Sally Potter's latest film, The Party, a group of friends meet to celebrate a promotion but their lives begin to unravel as shocking secrets are exposed. The writer-director speaks to John about the film which stars Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall and Emily Mortimer.
Writer and critic Hadley Freeman and the playwright and TV writer and actor Eva O'Connor discuss the challenges of depicting anorexia on screen. Eva's drama Overshadowed on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ 3 has been widely praised for its portrayal of the illness, but why is it that programme makers so often get it wrong?
Jimmy Webb, the songwriter, composer and arranger, has written for some of the biggest names in the business, and wrote over 100 songs for Glen Campbell. The multi-Grammy-award-winning writer looks back over his own life and work - including his hit songs Galveston and Wichita Lineman - which feature in his new memoir The Cake and The Rain.
Presenter John Wilson
Producer Jerome Weatherald.
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Kirstin Scott Thomas in Sally Potter's film The PartyΒ in selected cinemas from 13 Oct, cert 15
Main image: Sally Potter
Photo credit: Dominique Charriau
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Jimmy Webb and John Wilson
Photo credit: Jerome Weatherald
Jimmy Webb's Memoir, The Cake and the Rain is available nowAnorexia on screen
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Role Contributor Presenter John Wilson Producer Jerome Weatherald Interviewed Guest Sally Potter Interviewed Guest Hadley Freeman Interviewed Guest Eva O'Connor Interviewed Guest Jimmy Webb Broadcast
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