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Free Thinking: Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation

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Matthew Sweet and guests look at the 1974 Gene Hackman film about surveillance and murder.

Released at the height of the Watergate scandal, Coppola's 1974 film about surveillance and wire-tapping reflected the mood of paranoia in the USA. Matthew Sweet & guests discuss.

Gene Hackman is a brilliant but troubled surveillance expert who gets drawn unwittingly into a conspiracy to murder. Released at the height of the Watergate scandal, Coppola's 1974 film about covert surveillance and wire-tapping reflected the mood of paranoia in the USA at the time. Matthew Sweet his guests, film historians Lucy Bolton and Phuong Le, writer Michael Goldfarb and writer and filmmaker Adam Scovell discuss the film and how our attitudes to being subjected to surveillance have changed in the fifty years since it was released. 

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