The English Patient

Duration: 2 hours, 33 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 30^th Mar 2008, 22:20 on BBC One North WestLatest broadcast: Fri 15^th Aug 2014, 23:35 on BBC Two Wales

Sweeping romantic epic set at the end of the Second World War. A badly burned and unidentified pilot recounts a doomed love affair to the nurse tending him. Show more

Contributors

Director:: Anthony Minghella
Count Laszlo de Almásy:: Ralph Fiennes
Hana:: Juliette Binoche
Katharine Clifton:: Kristin Scott Thomas
David Caravaggio:: Willem Dafoe
Geoffrey Clifton:: Colin Firth
Fenelon-Barnes:: Clive Merrison
Major Muller:: Jurgen Prochnow
Kip:: Naveen Andrews
Madox:: Julian Wadham
Sergeant Hardy:: Kevin Whately
D'Agostino:: Nino Castelnuovo
Fouad:: Hichem Rostom
Corporal Dade:: Philip Whitchurch
Spalding:: Lee Ross
Writer:: Anthony Minghella
Author:: Michael Ondaatje
Producer:: Saul Zaentz
Composer:: Gabriel Yared
Director of photography:: John Seale

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Source: BBC Online

Open Book

Michael Ondaatje, Nell Dunn

BBC Radio 4

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 17^th Jun 2018, 16:00 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Thu 21^st Jun 2018, 15:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM

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Michael Ondaatje talks about his new novel, Warlight, set in postwar London. Mariella Frostrup talks to Nell Dunn about the re-issue of her groundbreaking book Talking to Women. Show more