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Morrissey and the Movies

Antonia Quirke talks to Mark Gill, the director of a new bio-pic about Morrissey, England Is Mine, and considers the singer's influence on the movie tastes of a generation.

Antonia Quirke talks to Mark Gill, the director of a new bio-pic about Morrissey, England Is Mine, and considers the singer's influence on the movie tastes of a generation, introducing thousands of fans to A Taste Of Honey and many other British realist classics. Andrew Collins turns sleuth and picks out the film quotes in The Smiths' lyrics.

Comedian Rosemary Fletcher considers the ways that innocuous-seeming romantic comedies can endorse behaviour that borders on the criminal, in her series Rosemary Versus Rom-Com

Director Luc Besson tells Antonia about Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets, his adaptation of a graphic novel he read when he was ten years old and explains why he believes that American science fiction is imperialist.

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28 minutes

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Thu 3 Aug 2017 16:00

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Antonia Quirke
Interviewed Guest Mark Gill
Interviewed Guest Rosemary Fletcher
Interviewed Guest Luc Besson

Broadcast

  • Thu 3 Aug 2017 16:00

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