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Radio 4,30 May 2008,26 mins

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Francine Stock talks to producer and director Roger Corman, whose credits include Attack of the Crab Monsters, The Pit and the Pendulum and The Trip. Matthew Sweet discusses the little-known silent masterpiece A Cottage On Dartmoor, directed by Anthony Asquith, the son of a prime minister and great uncle of Helena Bonham Carter. John Hurt on his pilgrimage to the cinema to see Truffaut's masterpiece Jules Et Jim; poet Simon Barraclough's unique take on the love triangle. A chance to hear a clip from Francine's archive interview with Sydney Pollack, whose death was announced this week.

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