The London Film Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary with more than 340 programmes showing over 18 days. But does the sum of such a festival add up to more than its parts? Tony Palmer talks to Robert Altman and, as debate continues over the festival's future, discusses its role with outgoing director Sheila Whitaker. Plus first-night news of Peter Oswald 's new verse-play Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards.
Producer Nicki Paxman