Free Love, Catholicism, Roger Corman, Red Dog

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With Matthew Sweet Can there ever be such a thing as Free Love? French philosopher Pascal Bruckner and the author Lisa Appignanesi reflect on the legacy of the sexual revolution and the ensuing new contradictions and pressures of modern love. A new BBC4 series explores what it means to be Catholic in modern Britain. It draws portraits of men, women and children whose lives and identities are shaped by a religion that has recently come under vehement attack, following several child abuse scandals. Piers Paul Read will be exploring what place Catholicism has in modern British public life. Also, we review a new documentary "Corman's world: exploits of a Hollywood rebel", about the maverick producer and director Roger Corman, who launched the careers of Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, and Peter Fonda among others, all through making commercially successful exploitation B movies away from the big Hollywood studios. And writer Louis de Bernieres talks about a new film adaptation of his novel Red Dog - about a stray dog who unites a group of miners in a remote Australian village and whose devotion to his master lives on long after the young man's tragic death.