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The Class of 94 in movies included John Travolta returning to super stardom, dancing with Uma Thurman and discussing hamburgers with Samuel L Jackson in Tarantino’s extraordinary Pulp Fiction and Disney making a true widescreen epic in The Lion King and changing the face of film music by employing Sir Elton John and Sir Tim Rice.

Who would have predicted a simple soul could run across America, marry his childhood sweetheart and be present at the great moments in history by proclaiming simply that life was like a box of chocolates. A bomb was planted on a bus that had to keep to the speed of 50mph in Los Angeles with Sandra Bullock in the driver’s seat. Even the canniest studio head would not have predicted a film opening with posh Hugh Grant swearing as he was late for a wedding or the story of a prison escape by Stephen King involving Rita Hayworth would both become truly iconic for decades to come.

So many debuts in 1994 too – Jim Carrey was smokin’ in one of his three hit films that year - Dumb & Dumber.

Radio 2’s film critic James King looks at all these amazing classic films and discovers why it was such an exciting time, all illustrated with new and archive interviews from the stars, creatives and fellow critics of the time.

You’ll hear James talking to Dumb and Dumber director and co-writer Peter Farrelly, Quentin Tarantino and his music supervisor on Pulp Fiction Kathy Nelson, Sir Tim Rice on the Lion King, Richard Curtis, Emma Freud and Simon Callow, one of the stars from Four Weddings And A Funeral.

Archive clips come from Sandra Bullock, Tom Hanks, Sally Field, The Shawshank Redemption director Frank Darabont and the late great Barry Norman.