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Downsizing, filming sex scenes and a satire on ceramics

Duration: 30 minutes

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

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Matt Damon's new film Downsizing imagines a solution to over-population is to shrink humans to five inches tall. Director of Film for the British Council Briony Hanson reviews the film which is part midlife strife part speculative science-fiction.

A choreographer for sex scenes on stage or on screen is just as important as that for a fight scene - so says movement director Ita O'Brien, who is calling on the industry to do more to protect performers in scenes involving sex or nudity. Ita O'Brien and casting agent Chris Carey discuss her proposals in the post-Weinstein, #MeToo era.

Political cartoonist Martin Rowson joins John at the British Museum to meet Patricia Ferguson, curator of a display called Pots with Attitude: British Satire on Ceramics, 1760-1830 which looks at the Georgian fashion for printing satirical drawings onto pottery .

And on the day the BFI re-issues of the classic British nuclear disaster film When the Wind Blows, based on the cartoon by Raymond Briggs, Ian Christie considers the film's relevance now.

Presenter : John Wilson
Producer : Dymphna Flynn. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Briony Hanson
Interviewed Guest:
Ita O'Brien
Interviewed Guest:
Chris Carey
Interviewed Guest:
Martin Rowson
Interviewed Guest:
Patricia Ferguson
Interviewed Guest:
Ian Christie
Producer:
Dymphna Flynn

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