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The Film Programme: Diana; Tony Gilroy and Hossein Amini; Metro Manila; Trevor Howard

Diana; Tony Gilroy and Hossein Amini; Metro Manila; Trevor Howard

19/09/2013

BBC Radio 4 - The Film Programme, Diana; Tony Gilroy and Hossein Amini; Metro Manila; Trevor Howard

Oliver Hirschbiegel on Diana; Hossein Amini on screenwriting; Sean Ellis on Metro Manila.

Francine Stock talks to director Oliver Hirschbiegel about controversial biopic Diana. Tony Gilroy and Hossein Amini on the art of screenwriting, and Sean Ellis on Metro Manila.

Francine Stock talks to Downfall director Oliver Birschbiegel about his controversial new film Diana, which dramatises the last two years of Princess Diana's life including her relationship with a heart surgeon. Naomi Watts takes the title role.

Tony Gilroy who penned the Bourne films and Hossein Amini, whose credits include The Wings of the Dove and Jude, discuss the art of screenwriting and adaptations, as BAFTA and the BFI open their Screenwriters lecture series.

The director Sean Ellis discusses his new thriller Metro Manila, set in the Philippines, which follows a rural family on their increasingly fraught journey to survive in the city. His film, inspired by a holiday in Manila where he witnessed an argument between two armed guards, has now been picked up to be remade around the world.

And film historian Melanie Williams marks the centenary of Trevor Howard's birth with a look back at his career including lesser known works like Outcast of the Islands from 1953 as well as classics such as Brief Encounter.

Producer: Elaine Lester.

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