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Radio 4,23 Apr 2015,28 mins

Joss Whedon on Avengers; Roy Andersson; Foley; The Falling

The Film Programme

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With Francine Stock. Avengers' director Joss Whedon discusses the challenges of writing a film with not one, not two, but eight super-heroes. Swedish auteur Roy Andersson on A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence and why the Swedes are really glum. As part of the BBC's Get Creative campaign, Francine tries her hand at making sound effects with household objects, ably assisted by Foley artist Barnaby Smyth. In the week that The Falling is released, Kier-La Janisse and Sandra Hebron consider the depiction of mass hysteria in cinema history, from The Devils to Picnic At Hanging Rock.

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