Shirley Henderson, Maxine Peake

from The Film Programme · host BBC Radio 4

With Antonia Quirke.Shirley Henderson reveals the meticulous research she conducted for her role as a woman in the advanced stages of Parkinson's Disease for her new film Never Steady, Never Still.Maxine Peake and Tony Pitts on why they found working men's clubs impossibly glamorous in the 70s and 80s.Midwives Kate Jackson and Christine Kelly reveal what the movies get wrong about their jobs.Director Justin Edgar writes three rules that other film-makers should follow when making dramas with disabled characters.And there is a podcast exclusive edition of Mind The Gap in which critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey fill the gap in their knowledge of Merchant-Ivory films.

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