Making History   /     Film

Description

With this year's Oscars imminent, Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence meet the cineasts who help us understand history and the history of cinema. Hannah Grieg, historical consultant on the Oscar-winning film The Favourite, and the screenwriter of Churchill, Alex von Tunzelmann, discuss the portrayal of history on the big screen. Tom meets Kevin Brownlow, whose work finding and restoring film from the silent era earned him an Oscar in 2010. And Matthew Sweet tells the story of Vic Kinson, a bookkeeper from Derbyshire, who created the IMDB of his day. Produced by Craig Smith A Pier production for BBC Radio 4

Subtitle
Tom and Iszi meet the cineasts who help us understand history and the history of cinema.
Duration
1689
Publishing date
2020-01-28 16:00
Link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dpk9
Contributors
  BBC Radio 4
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Enclosures
http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p081ls51.mp3
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