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Radio 4,15 Oct 2015,28 mins

Tom Hiddleston, The Program, The Lobster, Beasts of No Nation, Virtual Reality

The Film Programme

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With Francine Stock We can see Tom Hiddleston in three movies over the next few months; he explains why his films are like London buses. Actor Ben Foster mounts a defence of Lance Armstrong, the disgraced cyclist he plays in Stephen Frears' new drama The Program. Yorgos Lanthimos discusses the reasons that his characters are transformed into animals if they don't find a a mate in his satire The Lobster. Chris Milk reveals the future of virtual reality and why it will supersede the medium of cinema. Cary Fukunaga discusses the use of child actors to play child soldiers in his harrowing war movie Beasts Of No Nation Producer Catherine Bray remembers the time when she thought her hair might actually be space worms, after watching a horror movie at the tender age of ten.

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