23/07/2010
The League Of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss presents the first of his favourite character actors, Ernest Thesiger of Bride Of Frankenstein fame. Produced by Stephen Hughes.
The League Of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss presents the first of his favourite character actors, Ernest Thesiger, the mad scientist in The Bride Of Frankenstein
Matthew Sweet talks to one of the unsung heroines of British cinema - Angela Allen, the script supervisor who spent 30 years by the side of John Huston. She recounts tales of dysentery and whisky drinking on the jungle set of The African Queen, of problems with Marilyn Monroe on her last movie, The Misfits, and Montgomery Clift's troubles with the bottle on Freud.
The star of The Thorn Birds television series, Rachel Ward, tells Matthew why she quit acting and Britain to become a film director in Australia
The child star of Sammy Going South, Fergus McClelland, reveals the reasons why many believed the film was jinxed.
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RACHEL WARD
The star of The Thorn Birds tells Matthew why she quit acting and Britain to become a film director in Australia.
Duration: 07:14
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- Fri 23 Jul 2010 16:30±«Óãtv Radio 4 FM
- Sun 25 Jul 2010 23:00±«Óãtv Radio 4
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