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The Film Programme: 11/10/2012

11/10/2012

BBC Radio 4 - The Film Programme, 11/10/2012

Veteran actor Martin Landau on working with Tim Burton and Alfred Hitchcock.

Veteran actor Martin Landau on working with Tim Burton and Alfred Hitchcock, and Michael Morpurgo reflects on two very different screen treatments of his books.

Veteran actor Martin Landau discusses his role as the wise - if sinister - science teacher in Tim Burton's retro-fable Frankenweenie. 

Author Michael Morpurgo reflects on the two very different screen treatments of his books, War Horse and Private Peaceful. 

We reveal the winner of the first Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Prize, intended to encourage more and better scripts about science.

Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, the team behind Little Miss Sunshine, discuss their new film Ruby Sparks, about a novelist whose fictional creation comes to life. 

Producer: Craig Smith.

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