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EPISODE · Mar 18, 2021 · 26 MIN

Francis Lee on Ammonite

from The Film Programme · host BBC Radio 4

Antonia Quirke talks to Francis Lee, director of Ammonite, starring Kate Winslet, about the palaeontologist Mary Anning. They discuss his controversial imagining of a lesbian relationship for Anning, the importance of sound in cinema and why he has never seen his own film on the big screen.Antonia also looks at the work of MIMC, a film makers' collective in the Scottish borders and discovers the part it plays in its members' lives both socially and cinematographically.And director Mark Jenkin continues his audio diary and reveals why going on holiday just before shooting commences might not be a bad thing.Producer: Harry Parker

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