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The Film Programme: Les Miserables; Oscars; Underground

Les Miserables; Oscars; Underground

10/01/2013

BBC Radio 4 - The Film Programme, Les Miserables; Oscars; Underground

Francine Stock interviews Les Miserables director Tom Hooper. Plus Oscar nominations.

Film news. Francine Stock interviews Tom Hooper, director of Les Miserables. Composer Neil Brand on his new score for the silent film Underground. Plus Oscar nominations.

Francine Stock talks to Les Miserables director Tom Hooper, who broke with tradition by recording his actors singing live on set. Hooper began his career on Eastenders and went on to win an Oscar for The Kings Speech, but this is his first musical.

Tim Robey reports on the Oscar nominations.

Producer Alison Owen and screenwriter Stephen Fingleton discuss the new Hollywood Blacklist, a list of the hottest unproduced film scripts.

And composer Neil Brand talks about his new score for Anthony Asquith's 1928 silent film classic, Underground, which is re-released this week.

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