Crash

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Crash - directed by David Cronenberg - controversially won the Best Picture Oscar in 2006. Paul Gambaccini tackles the film loved and reviled in equal measure by the very same Los Angeles society whose darker side the film set out to explore. Series about how some of the greatest Oscar-winning films were made, and what they tell us about the history of the time. Producer: Jane Lewis First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2009.