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The Film Programme

Alex Garland on Ex Machina, Liz Fraser on I'm All Right Jack, JC Chandor on A Most Violent Year

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

With Francine Stock.

Novelist Alex Garland discusses his directorial debut Ex Machina and tells Francine why he thinks Professor Stephen Hawking is wrong to worry that the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

Liz Fraser is known as one of the Carry On girls, even though she only appeared in four of the series. As her film debut, I'm All Right Jack, is released on DVD, she spills the beans on stereotyping, Peter Sellers, and the unions.

Director J.C. Chandor reveals why he set his crime drama A Most Violent Year in 1981, statistically the most violent 12 months in the history of New York city. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Francine Stock
Interviewed Guest:
Alex Garland
Interviewed Guest:
Liz Fraser
Interviewed Guest:
J C Chandor

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