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Thelma Schoonmaker

Kieran Evans

Lesley Sharp

Briony Hansen

Olivia Skinner

Front Row: Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker; Lesley Sharp; Only Lovers Left Alive

Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker; Lesley Sharp; Only Lovers Left Alive

17/02/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker; Lesley Sharp; Only Lovers Left Alive

Arts news with John Wilson, including Lesley Sharp on her stage role in A Taste of Honey.

Lesley Sharp on her stage role in Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey, and Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker on unveiling a tribute to filmmakers Powell and Pressburger.

With John Wilson.

The legendary film-making duo of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were commemorated today with the unveiling of an English Heritage blue plaque. The plaque was unveiled by Thelma Schoonmaker, film-editor and Powell's widow, and by film-director Martin Scorsese. Both talk to John about their love of Powell and Pressburger's work.

The Welsh director Kieran Evans has won the BAFTA for an Outstanding Debut for his feature film Kelly + Victor. Evans, who started his career as a music video director, discusses what winning the BAFTA means to him.

John talks to the actress Lesley Sharp (Scott and Bailey, Clocking Off) about A Taste of Honey, the taboo-breaking play which was written by Shelagh Delaney in 1958 when she was only 18. Set in working class Salford in the 1950s, it's about social prejudice and the volatile relationship between a mother and her teenage daughter.

Only Lovers Left Alive, the latest release from independent director Jim Jarmusch, is a vampire romance drama nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton star as the music-loving, undead couple Adam and Eve, who have been married for centuries. Briony Hansen reviews.

Producer: Olivia Skinner.

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