EPISODE · Aug 12, 2021 · 27 MIN

Alvin Rakoff

from The Film Programme · host BBC Radio 4

With Antonia Quirke94 year old director Alvin Rakoff talks about giving Sean Connery his big break, why his friend Peter Sellers wired his home for sound and what it was like directing Laurence Olivier in A Voyage Around My FatherAuthor Anna Cale and historian Matthew Sweet talk about the phenomenon that was Diana Dors and reveal how her life would have changed if she had only married Bob Monkhouse.

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