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The Afternoon Show: Robert Zemeckis, Ben Whishaw, plus review of The Favourite

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Robert Zemeckis, Ben Whishaw, plus review of The Favourite

BBC Radio Scotland - The Afternoon Show, Robert Zemeckis, Ben Whishaw, plus review of The Favourite

Actor Ben Whishaw and director Robert Zemeckis discuss their forthcoming films.

Ben Whishaw discusses playing a grown-up Michael Banks in Mary Poppins Returns and Robert Zemeckis, Oscar winning director, talks about new film, Welcome to Marwen.

Thursday is film day on The Afternoon Show - and today we’ll hear from Ben Whishaw about starring as a grown-up Michael Banks in Mary Poppins Returns. 

Robert Zemeckis, Oscar-winning director of Forrest Gump, Back to the Future and Castaway, introduces us to his new movie starring Steve Carrell, Welcome to Marwen, released in the New Year.

Oscar-tipped The Favourite, new Transformers movie Bumblebee and Papillon, a brand-new remake of the 1974 drama starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman, are all up for review.

Illustrator and writer of children’s books Ed Vere joins Grant to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Raymond Briggs’ classic and much loved picture book for young children, The Snowman.

The Singing Cabbies will be dropping in to tell us about their concert at the V&A Dundee.

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