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Front Row

Julianne Moore; Ed Miliband on the arts; Pinter premieres

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Arts news with John Wilson, including 2015 Oscar-winner Julianne Moore, Ed Miliband on Labour's plans for the arts, and two Pinter screenplays being performed for the first time. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Julianne Moore
Interviewed Guest:
Ed Miliband
Interviewed Guest:
Laurence Bowen
Producer:
Dymphna Flynn

Saturday Drama

The Last Tycoon

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

4 Extra Debut. 1930s Hollywood studio head Munroe Stahr is at the top of his game, but is fatefully unhinged by a love affair. Stars Aiden Gillens. Show more

Contributors

Munro Stahr:
Aidan Gillen
Tony Rodriquez:
Karl Johnson
Boxley:
Trevor Ray
Fleishacker:
John Guerrasio
Miss Doolan:
Angela Douglas
Adaptor:
Bill Bryden
Director:
Bill Bryden

Genres

Drama on 4

Unmade Movies

Orson Welles' Heart of Darkness

Duration: 1 hour, 22 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Orson Welles’ unproduced screenplay of Conrad's celebrated novel tells the story of a skipper who is hired to take a steam ship up the Congo River and encounters a terrifying evil. Show more

Drama on 4

Unmade Movies

Harold Pinter's Victory

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

4 Extra Debut. Harold Pinter's screenplay of Victory, Josef Conrad's last major novel, about a mysterious Swedish baron endangered by an affair with an English girl. Show more

Drama on 4

Unmade Movies

Unmade Movies: Arthur Miller’s The Hook

Duration: 1 hour, 42 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Arthur Miller’s unproduced screenplay tells the story of a 1950s Brooklyn longshoreman who is fired for standing up to his corrupt union boss, but decides to fight back. Show more

Drama on 4

Unmade Movies

Hammer Horror's The Unquenchable Thirst of Dracula

Duration: 1 hour, 27 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

As part of the second season of Radio 4's Unmade Movies, Mark Gatiss directs an unmade Hammer Horror Dracula script, set in 1930s India. Show more

Drama on 4

Unmade Movies

Hitchcock's The Blind Man

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

4 Extra Debut. Hitchcock and Lehman's unfinished screenplay, completed by Mark Gatiss. A blind Jazz pianist is given an eye transplant from a murder victim. Stars Hugh Laurie. Show more

Contributors

Larry Keating:
Hugh Laurie
Sylvia Whitehead:
Rebecca Front
Victor Farmer:
Nicholas Woodeson
Jenny Stiles:
Kelly Burke
Mortie Levitt:
Andy Nyman
Captain Barzoni:
Andy Nyman
Linda Whitehead:
Hilary Connell
Herman Graubner:
John Guerrasio
Dr McGraw:
John Light
Autograph Girl:
Hollie Burgess
Alfred Hitchcock:
Peter Serafinowicz
Director:
Mark Gatiss

Genres

Drama on 4

Unmade Movies

Harold Pinter's The Dreaming Child

Duration: 1 hour, 27 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Harold Pinter's unproduced screenplay, based on Karen Blixen's elusive and mysterious short story. Set in Bristol in 1868, a wealthy but childless couple adopt a slum child. Show more