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EPISODE · May 18, 2017 · 28 MIN

La La Land

from The Film Programme · host BBC Radio 4

With Francine Stock.The Oscar winning composer of La La Land, Justin Hurwitz, reveals why he wrote 1,900 pieces of music for the film and how he narrowed them down to just a handful.Critic Tim Robey and film buyer Clare Binns discuss the movies and the controversies at this year's Cannes film festival.Comedian Rosemary Fletcher reveals the various ways that her love life has not matched up to expectations raised by watching romantic comedies for the last couple of decades. Why, for instance, her "meet cutes" haven't always been so cute. And haven't always included meeting.To mark the 60th anniversary of the foreign language Oscar, Larushka Ivan-Zadeh unpicks the byzantine rules behind the most contentious of Academy Awards.

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