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Radio 4,30 mins

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The writer, star and co-creator of BBC's Sherlock, Mark Gatiss, celebrates the work of his favourite actor, Roger Livesey, best known as Colonel Blimp. Horror director John Carpenter explains how he came to make a bio-pic of Elvis Presley only a year after his death. Matthew Sweet talks to director Sylvain Chomet who resurrected a script by Jacques Tati for his latest animation, The Illusionist Neil Brand reveals the debt that modern blockbusters owe to Douglas Fairbanks' action heroes Matthew meets producer Ann Skinner, one of the unsung heroines of British cinema.

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