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The Film Programme: Maurice

02/08/2018

Maurice

BBC Radio 4 - The Film Programme, Maurice

James Wilby remembers Maurice, a film about gay desire in Edwardian England.

James Wilby remembers starring opposite Hugh Grant in Maurice, a film about gay desire in Edwardian England.

James Wilby remembers starring in Maurice, a story of the forbidden love between two men amid the stifling conformity of Edwardian England. As James Ivory's film adaption of EM Forster's novel returns to cinemas this summer Wilby looks back on filming alongside Hugh Grant and how the film was overlooked in Britain in in 1987. 

Rosamund Pike and director Patrick Kennedy talk about the art of phoning it in. From their short film, The Human Voice, which consists entirely of Rosamund on the phone for 18 minutes to some of cinema's must iconic on the phone scenes. 

Presenter: Antonia Quirke 
Producer: Kate Bullivant.

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