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Radio 3,4 mins

Silent Film on the Radio: Love, Life and Laughter described

Free Thinking

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Matthew Sweet, comedian Lucy Porter and British Film Institute Curator Bryony Dixon give a commentary on section from the 1923 film Love, Life and Laughter which has just been rediscovered in Holland. They are accompanied by Stephen Horne, the silent film pianist and composer. And author Peter Buwalda translates the intertitles, which are in Dutch. Image: Love, Life and Laughter (1923) by George Pearson. © Courtesy BFI.

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