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The Film Programme: 27/08/2010

27/08/2010

BBC Radio 4 - The Film Programme, 27/08/2010

Matthew Sweet talks to Robin Williams, and Mark Gatiss salutes the work of Lionel Jeffries

Matthew Sweet talks to Robin Williams about his new comedy, World's Greatest Dad. Mark Gatiss salutes the work of Lionel Jeffries.

Robin Williams talks to Matthew Sweet about his latest comedy World's Greatest Dad, in which he plays a depressed English teacher who couldn't be more different than the inspirational figure he played in Dead Poets Society

Sherlock co-creator and League of Gentlemen member Mark Gatiss salutes the work of Lionel Jeffries, The Railway Children director and quintessential character actor who died earlier this year

Wardrobe supervisor Rosemary Burrows discusses her career, from dressing Christopher Lee in bandages for Hammer horror movies to putting two thousand members of the Moroccan army in Roman costume for Gladiator

Colin Shindler turns back the clocks and finds out what was on at the local ABC in August 1960.

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