Sunday Feature

Chaplin, Celebrity and Modernism

Sunday 4 March 2007 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)

Thirty years after the death of Charles Chaplin, Mark Kermode investigates the great comedian's celebrity role and influence on world culture from the modernists and Dadaists to the Russian avant-garde and imitators in Bombay. Privileged access to Chaplin's private archive reveals remarkable letters from Truman Capote, Winston Churchill and James Agee.

Duration:

45 minutes

Sunday Feature

Episode and Playlist Information

• 22 Apr 07 Toru Takemitsu
• 15 Apr 07 Akram Khan
• 8 Apr 07 John Dankworth
• 1 Apr 07 Riches From Freetown
• 18 Mar 07 Mind as Machine
• 11 Mar 07 Educating Mill
• 4 Mar 07 Charles Chaplin
• 25 Feb 07 Gibraltar unearthed
• 18 Feb 07 Six Unexpected Days
• 4 Feb 07 Struggle for Language

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