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Afternoon Reading: I Expected the Worst...

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Afternoon Reading: I Expected the Worst...: Episode 3: Wings of Desire

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By Wim Wenders. The director on trying to capture all things ethereal with actors.

By Wim Wenders. Three directors' adventures in film. Wim Wenders on trying to capture all things ethereal with actors. Read by Stephen Dillane.

"Usually a line emerges that enables you to fix on the characters and their relationships. But with angels you could do anything; there were connections all over the place, you could go anywhere. You could cross the Berlin Wall, pass through windows into peoples' houses. And anyone was hero of a potential film..."

In a series of three readings, famous film directors celebrate their work in the film business:

3. WINGS OF DESIRE
Wim Wenders describes working with angels on his famous film, based in Berlin. And should angels be shot in black and white or in colour?

Reader Stephen Dillane
Producer Duncan Minshull.

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