Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio 3,12 Feb 2019,14 mins

SeriesFive Screen Gods

Frederic March

The Essay

Available for over a year

Sarah Churchwell celebrates various leading men of the silver screen from the 1930s and 1940s. Frederic March had an amazing range, playing a lot of different types, and he should be admired for this. Off set, however, he comes under a different sort of scrutiny - "everything was harder in real life than on the effortless silver screen." Reader: Duncan Minshull

Programme Website
More episodes